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question of its freedom. In practice, therefore, he feels that he needs not go to any Guru to save his soul. Nor need he read spiritual scriptures or be afraid of any behaviour good or bad since a naturally pure self can neither be raised in status by good deeds nor be degenerated by bad deeds. With such intellectual decisions, the bigot rejects all means of self-improvement and whimsically and immorally.
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ज्ञानदशा
साधनदशा
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न कांई भवमांही ॥३०॥
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पामे नहीं. पामे तेनो संग जे, ते Jnanadasha pame nahi, sadhana dasha na kai; pame teno sanga je, te bude bhavamahi, 30 He who follows one unduly, Not expert in true soul-notion, Neither practising it truly, Is drowned in this vast world-ocean. 30
Such a bigot does not obtain the knowledge of the real and he has already rejected the right discipline for it. Not only he but all who meet and follow him sink deep in worldly miseries.
ए पण जीव मतार्थमां, निजमानादि काज I पामे नहि परमार्थने अन्-अधिकारीमां ज 113911 E pana jiva matarthama, nijamanadi kaja, Pame nahi paramarthane, an-adhikarima ja. 31 For one's prestige and selfishness, If one lets his ideals go, Consider that too foolishness, bigot he unfit also. 31 The pedantic theorist described above is also to be regarded as a bigot, as between him and the mechanical
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