Atma Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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Whatever anger and such other passions that are foreign to my nature are found in me, these are the results of good and bad karmas: I regard this to be the quintessence of the Sacred Word. Sri Devasena Achârya—:
53. That which is perception and knowledge incarnate, which possesses the power to fill countless points of space, which is not tinged with colour and other sensible qualities and is of the size of its body, that is to be known as soul.
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Avoiding emotional states, e.g., attachment and aversion as well as physical and mental distractions, and overcoming all shortcomings, meditate on thy soul with a one-pointed mind.
55. He who is troubled neither with anger, nor pride, nor greed nor deceit; who has no changing mental states to impart their various tints to his being; and who is above birth, old age and death, that pure Soul I, too, am: thus has it been taught.
56. He who is not encumbered with the properties of touch, taste, colour, smell and sound, and who is characterised by pure Intelligence, that pure divinity I am thus has it been taught.
57. The fool is constantly afflicted through his senses, experiencing now pleasure, now pain: this is the fate of him who has abandoned himself