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The Self Realization
followed under the guidance of such a Guru. Then only truth can be grasped and right experience of reality can be obtained. The importance and impelling need of a living enlightened Guru is repeatedly emphasised in order to keep clear of pride, conceit and ignorance. Humility is declared as the root of right religion and therefore a disciple is advised to serve his master without any reservation. On the other hand one should not pose to be a Guru without developing proper qualities in himself. An unmerited Guru degenerates into a bad type of a worldly person, and he leads his followers to deep darkness and bondage.
According to Srimad, only a truly enlightened Guru deserves to be a spiritual guide. To follow others is a sheer waste of time.
Later on, the doubts of the aspirant regarding the six fundamental truths, are posed and considered and conclusively replied so as to dispel them for ever and to help the disciple to see the truth in its purity. Regarding the nature of the soul it is said that as it is quite different from the body, no bodily sense organ can perceive the soul. The unreasonable obduracy to try to see the soul by any or all of the physical sense organs results from the attachment of the soul to the living body. Philosophically the soul and the body are two absolutely separate entities like the sward and its scabbard. The soul is neither a body nor the senses, nor breath. The soul is the source of organic unity of a living being. The soul is the all-knower, always the subject and co-ordinator of the information collected through the senses. The soul is conscious, knowing and blissful in nature. The conscious and the unconscious differ in kind and not in degree. Hence the unconscious cannot probe the conscious. But the conscious is a quite powerful light to understand the unconscious.
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