Book Title: Atma Dharma
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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________________ ( 67 } Additional Quotations. 117. Giving up the auspicious and inauspicious forms of infatuations connected with the body, speech and mind, and fixing his attention on his soul, the Yogi attains the state of Jivan-mukti (Liberation while still embodied in flesh), which knows nothing of metaphysical distinctions, which is untouched by evil and which is associated with the four infinities, i.e., with limitless perception, limitless knowledge, limitless happiness and limitless power, by destroying his sins, like fire that burns up a whole forest.-Sri Padmaprabha Mâlâdhari. 118. Alone does the soul suffer the pleasant or unpleasant consequences of his actions; alone does be leave one body to re-appear in another. Subhachandra. 119. Led by powerful karmas, the soul undergoes transmigration alone; led by intense infatuations, it is deprived of its inborn joy and suffers the pleasant or painful consequences of its deeds, likewise, alone and by itself; and alone also it is that it obtains the knowledge of its own self from a preceptor, and becomes established in it.- Sri Padmaprabha Mâlâdhâri. 120. "That dharma (merit) increases at the instance of gods; therefore, everything should be offered to them: "-one should not indulge in 6 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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