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infinite, and interminable. Whatever issues from him is potent enough to abrogate the miseries of tormented humanity. His presence is supremely enlightening. He is the spiritual leader of society3. Just as a mother educated her child for its benefit and a kind physician cures diseased orphans, so also the perfected mystic instructs humanity for its upliftment and dispenses spiritual pills to the suffering humanity. He is always awake5. He has transcended the dualities of friends and foes, pleasure and pain, praise and censure, life and death, sand and gold, attachment and aversion. Since he is the embodiment of spiritual virtues, he leads a life of supermoralism but not of a moralism?. Thus we may conclude by saying that the cognitive, conative and affective tendencies of the perfected mystic reveal their original manifestation in supreme mystical experience, which is ineffable and transcends all the similies of the world.8
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Pravacanasära, 1.13 Jñanarnara, 34 Svayambhūstotra of Samantabhadra, 35 (Vira Seva Mandıra, Delhi) Svayambhūstotra, 35 Acaranga Sūtra, 1.3 1 Pravacanasära, 3 41 Svayambhūstotra, 10 Jñanârnava, 33. Acaranga Sūtra, 1.5.73. Jñânārnava, 76, 77, 78
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