6.24 Self Effort Is The Only Way

You will obtain liberation through your efforts only. You will never gain liberation through someone else's efforts. We experience bondage which is our own misunderstanding. Then it will only go by our own mind! Our hunger is removed when we eat, not when someone else eats. Just like a human has to discard his own waste, a mumkshu has to discard his own mental waste himself. Upon becoming sick, a patient has to drink his own medicine and eat his own wholesome food. Similarly, a mumukshu patient afflicted with the disease of the world needs to himself consume medicine in the form of knowledge of brahman and wholesome food in the form of dispassion towards objects.