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The Adipurana, as well as the beauty of the senses, desires to refine beauty with bathing, garlands, anointing, and ornaments. ||79|| Carrying the body, which is the abode of the senses, the place of the defects, the dhatus, and the malas, a man is always anxious about its protection through food, medicine, etc. ||60|| Seeing the defects like birth, death, etc., and being distressed by the body, when a thoughtful man tries to perform austerities with the desire to abandon it, he accepts the body, which is the abode of the senses, the happiness and lifespan associated with it, and finally, seeing it perish, desires another abode of the senses. ||61-62|| But he who has the offspring of transcendental knowledge, transcendental vision, transcendental strength, and transcendental happiness, and who is endowed with his own self-nature, body, abode, and beauty, is never touched by the aforementioned defects. Therefore, one should consider him who has transcendental knowledge, strength, and happiness as an "apt" (one who has attained liberation), and one who does not possess these qualities as "inapt" (one who has not attained liberation). ||63-64|| Now, we will explain the meaning of this sentence further, because until the meaning of a thing is clarified, its true knowledge is not obtained. ||65|| A person who has transcendental knowledge does not rely on the meaning of any other scripture, but he himself, possessing pure eyes of perfect knowledge and knowing all things in the three periods of time, teaches everyone. ||66|| Similarly, a being who has transcendental vision never desires to see an unprecedented thing, because he who sees all things simultaneously has no unseen thing. ||67|| A being who has infinite strength, which is the destroyer of karma, also does not seek the help of any other being, but...