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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
who beholds the Truth in its naked ness leaves this illusion and gets out of the bonds of I and Mine. These are the people who can be considered as Saintly because their actions depend on the natural responses rather than based on preconceived notions and prejudices. Their aim happens to be universal good.
2. The second important bondage they get rid of is the bondage of rituals and practices that go by the name of religious customs. This is due to the natural consequence of the perception of Ground or Reality as it is and they come out of their rituals and customs and do not cling to them setting aside the logic that ‘because they are old and therefore there must be something good in that’. They also understand that these customs have been changing according to the times and their insistence on these to continue as they are is morbid. The suffering due to this bondage itself is something that only the person who goes through it knows and blessed are those who are not chained or imprisoned by such routines and rituals as they do not have to work with
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