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The Self Realization
प्रत्यक्ष सद्गुरु प्राप्तिनो, गणे परम उपकार ।
त्रणे योग एकत्वथी, वर्ते आज्ञाधार ||३५|| Pratyaksha sadguru praptino, gane parama upakara, Trane yoga ekatvathi, varte ajnadhara. 35 The company of the Teacher true, Directly does the greatest good, Soul-seekers all accept this view, Complete obedience understood. 35
He feels immense gratitude to a living true Teacher whom he has found out and adopted as his sole guide in his search for the Self. He completely surrenders himself to him by thought, word and deed. He scrupulously follows his Guru's advice in every way. He realizes that in the endless series of his past lives he wandered aimlessly on account of his not meeting a living true Teacher, that he has luckily or fortunately met one such in the present life and it is an unique advantage, that meeting a true teacher of the Self is of immense benefit to himself. Therefore he decides to lead his future life strictly in accordance with the advice and guidance of his living true Teacher. A true Teacher knowing his self has perfect control over his mental modifications, dispositions, instinctive urges, passions and desires, thoughts and volitions. He turns the mind of his disciple from unnecessary and wasteful pursuits into remembrance of the Self, meditation on it and constant repeated reading and understanding about it. He educates his disciple's speech into reading and meditational prayers needed for self-knowledge. He disciplines his disciple's bodily activities into adequate bodily postures helpful to meditation and service and devotion to a living true Teacher. By aimless behaviour in the absence of a living true Teacher, a seeker of the Self may invite bondage; by canalising the same energy whole-heartedly in the service of a living true Teacher he can obtain Liberation.
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