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spiritual reality which takes in its fold all the three worlds: by its infinite cognitive faculty, there remains for him nothing to know. And in the ignorance of it, the debates conducted with sharp scholarship is simply for exertion and misery and thus resemble an act of pounding chaffs (17). As soon as bhavabandha enters the field of experience the knot of Ignorance is cut off. This is like the removal of darkness on the entry of the sun in the sky (18). Were the self to remain engrossed and established in its own nature, then it will not undergo even in the presence of objects of knowledge impure changes contingent upon non-self. It is so because attachmeot and aversion, not finding their objects, come to an end just as fire not getting fuel gets extinguished (19). There is no other state more blissful than the one which one is afraid of. And there is no other state more dreadful than the one which one relies on. So, one should long for and attain the spiritual state which is permeated with supreme Bliss and infinite knowledge (20). A living being itself causes and gets involved in the transmigratory cycle on account of its ignorance of the difference between soul and non-soul. And it is this ignorance that gives rise in a living being to the notion that soul is the cause or doer (of karmas). Even in the state of liberation soul is the cause of its own pure states alone. Hence it is soul that is the ruler of soul and nothing else (21). If a living being, having abandoned the world, the objects of enjoyment and the means of enjoyment (body etc.) experiences its own nature then the creeper of transmigratory existence, not finding nourishment, dries up. (22) Just as a patient recovered from dreadful disease abandons, for the maintenance of health, the various delicious dishes even so a person freed of the fever of perverted attitude shuns all worldly enjoyment for the maintenance of spiritual health (23). The world shines and gets animated in the presence of this great spiritual Power which too, though dwelling in it, never assumes its changes. But under the influence of ignorance it dreams many dreams and hence its affluence gets obscured (24). Objects of illusion exists so long as Illusion exists but they melt away as soon as illusion is removed. Similarly. worldly objects cease to exist, so to say, for the one who has destroyed Nescience and consequently attachment to them. Such a person has truly realised his own spiritual self. And in his presence we feel his calming influence (25). When the spiritual and highly mystical light shines fully having destroyed the cloud of strong Delusion, it makes the whole world shining with its own light, pervades it by its upshooting spiritual rays and transcends all activity (26). A living being who is free from attachment and aversion, who knows all substances, who experiences pure spiritual states alone and who has realised the eternal spiritual nature does not bind new karmas even if he performs this or that activity (27). The state in which we, having become mad or infatuated, sleep is not ours. Let us abandon it
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