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## Six Substances - Description of the Five Astikayas
**Special Meaning:** In this worldly life, from time immemorial, the nature of karmic substances has bound the living being. In other words, eight karmas are always found bound to it in a flowing manner. When a worthy soul, due to the power of the infinite time of liberation, attains the three jewels of knowledge, conduct, and liberation, and the three jewels of certainty, liberation, and non-duality, then, by destroying the substance and the state of being of those karmas like knowledge-obscuring, etc., it becomes a perfected being through the Paryaya-arthicnaya. In other words, it attains the perfected state that was never manifested before. From the perspective of the Dravya-arthicnaya, this living being is already perfected in its essence.
Just like a large bamboo, the first half of which is adorned with various paintings, while the upper half is pure without any intricate designs. When a man named Devadatta sees the painted part with his vision and fails to see the pure part, then, due to his delusional knowledge, he considers the entire bamboo to be impure, adorned with intricate paintings, and assumes the upper half to be impure as well. Similarly, this living being, in the state of the world, is becoming impure through the Paryaya-arthicnaya due to the influence of false beliefs, attachment, aversion, and other subtle influences. However, in its inner nature, it is pure, adorned with perfect knowledge, etc., through the Dravya-arthicnaya. When it contemplates through the power of the mind, which is the form of choice, while undergoing transformation in these influences of attachment, etc., it sees the impure soul in the form of attachment, etc., in the external part, and similarly, even though it possesses the nature of perfect knowledge, etc., within, it considers itself impure due to its deceptive or false knowledge. Just as the mixture of various paintings in the bamboo is the cause of false knowledge, similarly, the false beliefs, attachment, aversion, etc., in this living being are the cause of false knowledge. Just as that bamboo becomes pure when the intricate paintings are washed away, similarly, this living being also becomes pure when it knows the supreme path, which illuminates the pure self-nature, in the presence of the holy gurus, and understands as it is said, "Eko'ham nirmamaḥ śuddho jñānī yogīndragocaraḥ | Bāhyāḥ saṁyoga-jā bhāvā mattaḥ sarve'pi sarvadā ||" (I am one, without any attachment, pure, knowledgeable, the object of the yogis. All the external feelings born of association are always outside my nature). Similarly, it knows through its inferential knowledge that this body, etc., and the soul are completely different because they have different characteristics. Just as water and fire are completely different due to their different characteristics. In the same way, it experiences through the knowledge of non-attachment, non-choice, and self-awareness. Then, through the power of the knowledge of the scriptures, inference, and self-awareness, it becomes pure. Here, the implication is that the pure soul-substance, which is the never-before-manifested perfected state, or the pure Jiva-astikaya, is the one that is worthy of being grasped. || 20 ||
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