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AKARANGA SUTRA.
man, free from acts, knows and sees the truth; examining (pleasures) he does not desire them. (2) Knowing whence we come and whither we go, he leaves the road to. birth and death, rejoicing in the glorious (liberation). All sounds recoil thence, where speculation has no room,' nor does the mind penetrate there1. The saint knows well that which is without support3. (3)
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(The liberated) is not long nor small nor round nor triangular nor quadrangular nor circular; he is not black nor blue nor red nor green nor white; neither of good nor bad smell; not bitter nor pungent nor astringent nor sweet; neither rough nor soft; neither heavy nor light; neither cold nor hot; neither harsh nor smooth; he is without body, without resurrection, without contact (of matter), he is not feminine nor masculine nor neuter; he perceives, he knows, but there is no analogy (whereby to know the nature of the liberated soul); its essence is without form; there is no condition of the unconditioned. There is no sound, no colour, no smell, no taste, no touch-nothing of that kind. Thus I say. (4)
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End of the Fifth Lecture, called Essence of the World.
1 It is impossible to express the nature of liberation in words, since it cannot be reached even by the mind.
Oe=oga, he who is free from love and hate.
I.e. liberation, or the state of the liberated. Support, patithâna, is the body or karman.
