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habits remain standing on their own energy. They will automatically
fade away once you take away the foundation that supports
them. People keep supporting their good habits and keep trying
to destroy their bad ones, but the foundation that supports the
good and bad habits remains intact nevertheless. And the
worldly life will continue to exist as long as their support remains
intact. There are infinite things in this world and so unless one
steps away from them all (becomes the Self through Gnan), how
will one be able to remove each one of them individually? But
once the support is gone, so will everything else. If the bread
earner in a family of twelve dies, they will say, our support is
gone. The same principle is applicable in liberation. This world
is such that even if you pluck every hair on your head, you will
not attain anything (the Jain monks upon initiation into monk
hood pluck their hair individually off the scalp). There are infinite
things in the world. Instead, it is better that one steps away from
them all (move from the realm of the relative to the realm of the
real). Then there is no problem whether you have a head full of
hair or none!
In the Akram path, the support of ignorance is removed
from the beginning. That is why ‘We’ do not ask you to
renounce anything. The Gnani of the Kramic path is able to
make just one or two disciples renounce and he has to do the
same along with them. In the Kramic path they have to attain the
next new step and renounce the previous one. Whereas, in this
Akram path you have already attained that which needed to be
attained, namely the Self and renounced that which needed to be
renounced, namely attachment and ego. Hence the work is
accomplished. There is no need to pluck hair off the scalp, no
need to do any penance; no fasting is necessary and nothing
further needs to be renounced. In the Kramic path, the seeker
himself becomes the support for the penance. In the Kramic
path the ‘I’ (the seeker) and the ‘pure Soul’ remain separate till
the end. If someone were to tear a page from the seeker’s