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knowledge blinded by his own nescience unable to perceive its true nature thinks that the nature of the self is identical with the impure psychic states such as attachment.
सुद्धं तु वियागंतो सुद्धं चेवप्पयं लहूदि जीवो ।
जाणतो दुसुद्धं सुद्धमेवप्पयं लहूदि ॥ १८६॥
The self with the discriminative knowledge by contemplating upon the pure Self, becomes himself pure. But the self, which contemplates upon the impure nature of the self becomes himself impure. जह बंधे वितंतt बंधण बद्धो ण पावइ वि मोक्खं ।
तह बंधे चिततो जीवो वि ण पावइ विमोक्खं ॥ २६१ || As by (merely) thinking of bondage one bound in shackles does not get release, so also the self by merely thinking of (karmic) bondage does not attain Moksha.
जह बंधे छित्तूण य बंधणबद्धो उ पावइ विमोक्खं ।
तह बंधे छित्तूण य जीवो संपावइ विमोक्खं ॥ २६२ ॥
As one bound in shackles gets release only on breaking the shackles, so also the self attains emancipation only by breaking ( karmic ) bondage. atri व सहावं वियाणिम्रो अप्पणी सहाय च ।
बंधे जो विरज्जदि सो कम्म विमोक्खणं कुणदि ॥ २६३ ॥ Whoever with a clear knowledge of the nature of karmic bondage as well as the nature of the Self does not get attracted by bondage, that person obtains liberation from karmas.
मोक्खप अप्पाणं वेहि तं चैव झाहि तं चैव ।
तत्येव विहर णिच्च मा विहरसु अण्णदव्वेसु ॥४१२ ॥
