After Parasurama heard this from Sri Dattatreya he felt as if released from the meshes of ignorance. He again saluted Sri Datta and asked him with great devotion: Lord! Please tell me exactly how wisdom can be accomplished. I want to hear the essence of it in brief. The method should also be easy and at the same time efficient. Please also tell me the characteristics of the Sages, so that I may readily recognise them. What is their state with or without the body? How can they be unattached though active? Kindly tell me all this.
Thus requested, the son of Atri spoke to him with pleasure:
Sage Dattatreya said:
Listen! Rama, I am now telling you the secret of accomplishment. Of all the requisites for wisdom, Divine Grace is the most important. He who has entirely surrendered himself to the Goddess of his own Self is sure to gain wisdom readily. Rama! This is the best of all the methods. This does not require other aids to reinforce its efficiency, as other methods do for accomplishing the end. There is a reason for it. Pure Intelligence illumining all has cast a veil of ignorance of Her own over all. Her true nature is evident only after removing this veil by discrimination. This is hard for those whose minds are directed outward; but it is easy, sure and quick, for devotees engrossed in the Goddess of the Self to the exclusion of all else.
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