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place of origin and previous state of existence.56 From these indications we may conclude that the doctrine recognises in each siddha an entity which keeps its own personality, while at the same time having attained the highest perfection. Since they possess kevala-jñāna, the siddhas certainly are known to one another. Furthermore, the degree of perfection being in each one absolute, all possess it in like manner and thus there is no difference between them in regard to the plenitude they enjoy, a plenitude of life, knowledge and vision.57
Each ātman purified, detached, freed from all that was not proper to it, abides in that joy supreme which belongs to its true nature.58 This is a bliss beyond compare.59
56 Cf. TS X, 9.
57 Cf. US XXXVI, 67.
...svabhāvajam saukhyam. ..YSas XI, 61.
59 ....atulaṁ suhaṁ sampattā uvamā jassa natthi u. US XXXVI, 67.
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