Atma Dharma

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

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and perception; other characteristics are all modifications brought about by the instrumentality of karmas.
Sri Amrita Chandra Achârya :·
65. The soul is devoid of extraneous affections; it is full and perfect in its virtues; devoid of beginning and end, it is one pure existence that is not touched by passions and affections ;the discriminative faculty which perceives this pure truth arises in all the glory of the rising
sun.
66. Replete with the sense of the soul's inborn delight in every way, I perceive my being myself this [sense-deluding] infatuation is no relation of mine I am like an occan of pure consciousness.
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This [diversely-tinted] colour and these loves and hatreds and the like, are all different from the soul inspired with this thought, when one turns one's gaze to one's own within," one truly perceives none of them; what is perceived "inside" is only the Supreme Self.
68. This discrimination or true perception of the real nature of things is acquired with great difficulty, after carefully testing and proving knowledge to be the function of a conscious entity or being, and infatuation to be the product of an unconscious thing; O good
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