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Bhagavān Mahāvira 7. The enlightened should contemplate that his soul is endowed with boundless energy.
(Niyamasāra, 96) 79. Only that man can take a right decision, whose soul is.
not tormented by the afflictions of attachment and aversion.
(Isibhåsiyam, 44/1) 80. One who knows the spiritual (self) knows the external
(world) too. He who knows the external world, knows the self also.
(Ācārānga, 1/7/147) 81. If one's vision is capable of expelling the darkness, he
would not need a lamp. Likewise, the soul itself being blissful, there is no need of external object for bliss.
(Pravacanasára, 1/67) 82. Those who are interested in worldly objects have of
necessity misery in them. If there were no misery in them, they would not indulge in those objects.
(Pravacanasāra, 1/84) 83. I condemn what is worthy of condemnation. I censure
what is worthy of censure. I atone for all the outer and ioner encroachments on the soul.
(Mülācāra, 2/55) 84. May the state of the Arhats, the Siddhas and the Vitaragas be my goal.
(Mülācāra, 2/107) 85. As the fire quickly consumes dry wood, even so an adept
whose soul is equipoised and unattached causes the accumulated karma structure to disintegrate.
(Ācārārga, 4/3/33) 86. Those who hanker after pleasure, those who are attached
to or seized by passions and are obstinate like a miser, cannot know the nature of samadhi (self-concentration).
(Sütrakrtānga, 1/2/58)
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