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Dasha Shruta Skandha Sutra
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By engaging one's soul in the path of restraint, one attains infinite, boundless, supreme, unobstructed, unobscured, complete, perfect, supreme, pure knowledge and pure vision.
Tenth Dasha
Meaning - By contemplating that Lord with supreme knowledge, supreme vision, and supreme path of peace, one attains infinite, supreme, unobstructed, unobscured, complete, perfect, pure knowledge and pure vision.
Commentary - This sutra describes the fruit of action without cause. One who dwells in his soul, or contemplates his own soul, with knowledge superior to that of intellect, knowledge, etc., with the best vision, with the best character, with the path that destroys passions like anger, etc., or the path that brings peace, i.e., the path of liberation, attains infinite, boundless, supreme, unobstructed, unobscured, complete, perfect, pure knowledge and pure vision. In summary, by engaging in the path of restraint in this way, the soul destroys all karmas and attains the aforementioned knowledge and vision. Causal karma obstructs the attainment of the aforementioned knowledge and vision, therefore it cannot be attained while it exists. But the soul, free from it, attains the aforementioned knowledge and vision in the same birth.
The sutra gives so many attributes of knowledge and vision to show their difference from the knowledge of intellect, scripture, clairvoyance, and mind-reading. These four types of knowledge are false. The word 'knowledge' alone would not convey their meaning, hence the need to give so many attributes.
The sutra also shows that only the wise, strong, and powerful can succeed in this endeavor, not others.