Atma Dharma

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

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( 62 ) which is not produced by any other object, which is beyond the pairs of opposites (heat and cold ; pleasure and pain; and the like), which nothing can mar or disturb, and which is unlike anything else and eternal, --quaffing such a nectar, be obtains the flaw-lens, matchless, priceless jewel that is known to gratify every wish of its possessor. .
97. I am Åtman (spirit or soul), seeking my own happiness ; for this reason, I perceive again and again my own unborn, immortal soul by and through my own soul.
98. Destroying the force of desire which has been transforming itself into love and hatred throughout the unbroken chain of successive lives in the past, and establishing myself firmly in the delightful essence of Life by connecting my mind with It, through pure self-contemplation, and having acquired, at the feet of the venerable preceptor, the Faith that is pure and the bestower of joy, I merge myself in the Paramâtman of the most supremely excellent form, breaking, at the same time, with the aid of Right Knowledge, through the allu rements of infatuation.
99. He whose interior is illuminated with the Light of wisdom, arising from the annibilation of all those external and internal longings of which the terrible meshes of transmigration are woven, and from the constant recollection of the tranquil
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