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Jaina Answer to Three Questions
body of flesh and bones; we are distinct and different from the mind inte. llect and thought-activity, which are finite and changeable; we are infinite and unchangeable, One who knows and experiences his self as such is so happy that he exclaims in delight:
aham ekaḥ khalu śuddhaḥ nirmamo'taḥ jnanadarsanasamagraḥ | tasmin sthitas taccittaḥ sarvan etan kşayam nayami ||
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"I am really one, pure, without the sense of "mineness" and full of complete knowledge and perception. Firmly fixed and absorbed in such pure self, I shall lead all these passions of anger etc. to destruction,"