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new? Besides the film of this life has already been recorded in
your past life. So why harbor so much turmoil and agony within
you? You should never harbor suspicions or have doubts about
anyone. And yet people are skeptical about mokhsa, about the
Vitarag Lords and religion. The fools! You become ruined
because of your suspicions.
The Self can only be acquired if the sense, ‘I am this
body’ (dehadhyas), from infinite life cycles leaves. Otherwise
this belief will not let you realize the Self. The intellect (buddhi)
is the culprit in this and it will always show you the opposite
because it always defends the worldly life and keeps you
wandering within it. It continuously functions to the disadvantage
of the Self. It will never let you see the right thing and will show
you only the wrong. Once you are on the right path, there is the
possibility of solving everything. To be on the right path means
to be samkit (right belief, ‘ I am pure Soul’). To be on the
wrong path means to remain under the influence of a wrong
belief, (‘I am this body, I am Chandulal). To be the Self is
Gnan. The destruction of wrong belief results in the awakening
of right belief. Only then does one experience the bliss of
liberation. The intellect will keep you roaming in the life cycles
of the world.
Insistence Of View Point
So many people become engrossed with a particular
viewpoint and get stuck in a camp. They keep strengthening the
foundation of that faction, camp or sect. They become dogmatic
and blind to others’ viewpoints. Day and night they are lost in
the activity of strengthening the foundation of the side they have
chosen. You fools! Do you want to attain liberation or do you
want to remain stuck in your dogmatism? Liberation and
dogmatism are incongruous. Only when one rises beyond all
viewpoints does he find the path of liberation. Where there is