Please read quotes 837-840 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The practice of faith, devotion and meditation are declared by scripture to be the means to liberation for a seeker after liberation. He who perseveres in these will achieve freedom from the bondage to the body, created by ignorance.

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Please read quotes 833-836 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The settling of the mind in its goal, by turning away from the mass of objets through observing their defects again and again, is known as peace.

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Please read quotes 829-832 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

If you really have a desire for liberation, avoid the senses from a great distance, as you would poison, and continually practice the nectar-like qualities of contentment, compassion, forbearance, honesty, calm and restraint.

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Please read quotes 827-828 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Liberation confers “inner coolness” (peace) on the mind; bondage promotes psychological distress. Even after realizing this, one does not strive for liberation. How foolish people are! Such people are overcome by desire for sense-gratification. But even they can cultivate a desire for liberation by a study of this scripture.

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Please read quotes 823-826 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

When one is knocked about by the troubles and tribulations of earthly existence and is “tired of all this”, he seeks refuge from all this.

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Please read quote 822 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is a portion of that quote:

Even while living and functioning in this world, he who has this unconditioned vision does what has to be done as if he is asleep, without thinking of the world and its pleasures. After some years of living like this, one is fully liberated and he transcends all these states; he is liberated while living.

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Please read quotes 820-821 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Even as darkness disappears on turning towards light, ignorance disappears if you turn towards the light of Self. As long as there does not arise a natural yearning for Self-knowledge, so long this ignorance or mental conditioning throws up an endless stream of world-appearance.

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Please read quotes 817-819 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The real is, behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

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Please read quotes 813-816 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Suffering has made you dull, unable to see its enormity. Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

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Please read quotes 809-812 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Questioner: How does one reach the Supreme State?

Maharaj: By renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest.

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