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Chapter Forty-Eight
The divine sound, sweet, smooth, deep, sublime, and with clear letters, was unique, one, and pure. ||9|| The state of the world, bound by the non-dual nature of existence and non-existence, was visible in it. It was without cause, eternal, and self-evident. ||10|| There is a soul, there is a hereafter, there are dharma and adharma, and the living being is the doer and enjoyer of them. The statement that all the objects of the world are impermanent and non-existent was also visible in that divine sound. ||11|| This living being itself performs actions, itself enjoys their fruits, itself wanders in the world, and itself is liberated from it. ||12|| Confused by ignorance and attachment, it wanders repeatedly in the ocean of existence, and becoming pure by knowledge and detachment, it attains perfect state. ||13|| It was like a lamp illuminating this special knowledge of the soul, and quickly dispelling the darkness of ignorance about form and other qualities. ||14|| Just as water falling from the sky is one, but appears in various forms when it falls on the earth, so too, that speech of the Lord, though one, was appearing in various forms in the assembly according to the qualities of the recipients. ||15|| That divine sound of the Lord, illuminating all things in the world, was defeating the sun, and was shattering the ignorance-darkness, along with its coverings, in the hearts of the attentive assembly. ||16|| The Lord was saying that the liberation of the path-traveler of the world, who is endowed with the purity of the state of being a worthy soul, has been seen. Meaning: Only a worthy soul attains liberation. ||17|| The means of that liberation is obtained from the single cause of meditation and study, and first of all, it is in the form of the three-fold combination of right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct. ||18|| In them, having faith in the seven principles, including the soul, pure and free from all internal impurities like doubt, etc., is considered right faith. ||19|| That right faith arises from the destruction, subsidence, and destruction-subsidence of the darkness of the delusion of perception. It is of three kinds due to the difference of being perishable, etc., and two kinds due to the difference of being innate and acquired. ||20||