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SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION
41 (103) Supreme Jina has said that true renunciation consists in developing indifference towards the three, namely the world, the body and the enjoyment, through detachment for material objects.
(104) He alone can be said to have truly renounced everything who has turned his back on all available, beloved and dear objects of enjoyment possessed by him.
(105) That monk alone acquires the virtue of nonpossessiveness, who renouncing the sense of owenership and attachment and controlling his own thoughts, remains unperturbed by the pair of opposites like happiness and misery.
(106) Verily I am alone, pure, eternal and formless and possessing the qualities of apprehension and comprehension except these there is nothing, not even an atom, that is my own.
(107 & 108) We, who have nothing of our own, reside happily and live happily. As Nami-who had renounced his kingdom and become a saint, said when Mithila was in flames nothing of mine is being burnt there. I have abandoned my children and my wife, I have no occupation; I am a mendicant; there is nothing dear or disagreeable to me.
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