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The Self Realization
liberation at his age of sixteen years and five months and it was done within three days in the year Vikram Samvat 1943 or 1887 A. D. This book is written by him in an easy style understandable to young boys and girls with a view to turn their minds from trash readings to the reading of good books by which they can obtain the invaluable results of Self-liberation. In the opening lesson he requests the reader to read the book with due care and consideration which it deserves as its goal is very high. While other books deal with worldly life, this book deals with Self-liberation. All religious leaders have agreed in liberation as the goal of life and discrimination of the different natures of the Soul and the body as the means to its realization. Hence as a sound educationist interested in the lasting benefit of .. young minds he has offered this book to his readers. Unqualified sympathy for all living beings is the essence of every good religion. He suggests his reader to think of the inequalities of life and thereby to reflect on the good and bad deeds as causes of these inequalities. Human birth is the only stage opportune for a soul to think of and work for its salvation. If it is misused in doing other things, a golden opportunity is lost. Hence with the intense desire to work for the spiritual salvation of all living beings this book and such others are written by Srimad Rajachandra. Hence those who write such books are called men of unqualified sympathy and piety and they live for the benefit of other souls. The soul gets human birth as a result of many good deeds done in its previous births and therefore it is very precious. If a man controls his mind he can attain Godhead. He says, every word of Mokshamala has been properly considered and after much thought it has been well composed. He holds that his readers should not be guided by his writings simply because they flow from his pen. Every reader
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