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Iṣṭopadeśa - The Golden Discourse
destiny is in one's own hands. Therefore the popular identification of the self with the other things said to be owned by it is a figurative and transferred predication or upacarita asadbhuta vyavahāra naya. These four kinds of Vyavahāra Naya together with the two Niścaya Naya constitute the six Nayas which are specially employed to fathom the depth of human personality.
Chakravarti Nayanar, A. (2009), “Ācārya Kundakunda's Pañcāstikāya-Sara", Bharatiya Jnanpith, New Delhi, Third Edition, Introduction, p. lxx-lxxii.
The right believer knows that the soul is distinct from all surrounding objects, animate or inanimate, and these objects cannot be his possessions. He takes his body also in the same light. His passionate thoughts are impermanent and are due to material causes. These also cannot be his possessions. His only possession is his soul, eternal and pure.
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