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should weigh the thoughts expressed and should develop the habit of discriminative thinking. The writer should stimulate the reader's thinking but not substitute it. These expressions indicate the high maturity and balanced views on education on the part of Srimad Rajachandra and that too at a very early age.
Though Mokshamala was composed in three days Srimad Rajachandra found that it would take a long time to see it through the press. So he composed a small book of fifty pages called Bhavana Bodha or the instruction regarding the cultivation of twelve sentiments necessary for leading the life of non-attachment to the world and gave this book to his readers in anticipation of the publication of Mokshamala. The twelve sentiments to be cultivated are briefly :
1. Everything in the world except the soul is transitory and subject to destruction. The soul alone is, in its nature, eternal.
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The Self Realization
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In the world none can protect a living being from death. Therefore the only shelter one should seek in human life is true religion. Religion alone can be man's saviour.
The soul has been passing through a chain of births and deaths and it is high time for it to think of its freedom from Samsara a cycle of births and deaths. One should consciously realise that the soul's nature is freedom and so it is but natural to think of its salvation from Samsara.
This my soul has always been and is alone. It will suffer the fruits of its deeds and it is the lone pilgrim.
All souls are independent and generally
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