Atma Dharma

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

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82. Destroy the meshes of doubt that would keep thee entangled in samsara (the transmigratory condition); perceive thy soul as separate from the bodily self, and give thy self up to the contemplation of Divinity.
83. The self-conscious soul is self-manifesting by nature, beyond the senses, faultless and nothing but pure self-dependent Intelligence.
84. The adepts in yoga perceive the soul as separate from the subtle inner body of karmas as well as from the outer gross body (no-karma), as devoid of sensible qualities, colour, taste, smell and touch, as unborn and indestructible, as inseparable from its attributes and as having no connection with the not-self substances and states.
85. Whatever is perceived or known through the senses, is all extraneous to the soul, destructible and unconscious.
86. Why should not the consciousness which reveals an object reveal itself also ? Why should not that which perceives the light perceive (its source) the lamp ?
87. He is unbound, detached from all, perfect, fully divine, unborn, blissful; notwithstanding these different terms by which He may be described, the Pure Sbul has no differences in Himself.
88. This inner Light that is unlike every thing else, unperishing and free from disease