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The Self Realization
"That my soul has attained complete knowledge of its nature is an indubitable fact, that my knots of the heart and head have been removed, is a truth of all times and all self-realized souls will easily recognise and endorse my experience."
At other place he writes -
"O you self-knowledge, the source of all heights of joy and bliss, to you I bow down with all devotion and humility. Innumerable souls without you suffer from ignorance. It is solely by your grace that I could know you and I could reach the goal of my soul's pilgrimage. As a result I enjoyed unprecedented peace. I felt freedom from all worries and burdens, mental and physical."
"In Vikrarn Samvat 1947 I could realise the full stature of my spiritual being, and from then onwards I am enjoying increasing peace and bliss."
"In a wink the knowledge which drew me to the worldly life, changed its course and has led me to my proper goal i.e. self-realization."
In a couplet he says -
"One gets a spiritual insight by his spiritual eye and without it he cannot obtain soul-saving knowledge at all. This is not a matter of physical perception and it is foolish to try that way. Only by unqualified, concentrated devotion to a spiritual Guru or guide, one can obtain the soul-saving knowledge. Only a Guru can give this spiritual eye to see the spiritual reality."
In Vikram Samvat 1948, in the month of Magh, Srimad writes -
"The system which contains a clear description of the right positions of bondage and freedom is the only
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