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Chapter 16
(c) So long as a human being, does not do, what is worth doing, does not know, what is worth knowing, and does not gain, what is worth gaining, he cannot be totally fearless, fear subsists in him.
The more, a striver believes in God and the more, he depends on Him, the more fearless, he becomes. He thinks, that he being a fragment of the Lord, is imperishable, and so there is nothing to be afraid of, while the bodies and the worldly objects are decaying and perishing every moment. By having this discrimination, fear perishes and a striver, becomes totally fearless.
By accepting affinity for the Lord, a person, has no attachment to the body and family etc. Having become freed from attachment, a man is not afraid of death, and he becomes fearless.
Sattvasarissuddhih:- Purity of mind, or purity of heart is 'Sattvasarirsuddhi'. When a person is detached from the world and is attached to the Lord, his heart is purified. As soon as, he decides the. aim of his life as God-realization, his heart becomes pure, because, the aim of attainment of perishable things, causes impurity in the form of sin, distraction and obscurity, (ignorance). In the scriptures, actions without desire for their fruit, worship and knowledge respectively, have been said to be, the means to do away with this threefold impurity. The best means, to purify the heart or the mind, is that it should not be regarded, as one's own.
In order to, do away with one's sins, there is no need for expiation. A striver, should follow, the spiritual path zeal, and promptly. By doing so, his sins will perish and his heart will become pure.
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