Atma Siddhi

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, J L Jaini
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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ATMA-SIDDHI
enjoyment of infinite Conation, knowledge, power and bliss, is the only truth, and from this viewpoint bondage and liberation from the bondage of Karmas may be said to be an illusion, as our Vedantist brethren hold. But we are all in the world, and are all embodied compounds of soul and sin. So long as we are in this imperfect condition, our enthusing that bondage and liberation are mere ideas, is dangerous verbiage, and our own lives, full of delusion and attachment to passions, etc., etc., belie our big bombast.
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Knowledge and Rites are both Necessary
for Liberation. वैराग्यादि सफल तो, जो सह आतमज्ञान । तेमज आतमज्ञाननी, प्राप्तितणां निदान ।।६॥
वैराग्यादि तदाऽवन्ध्यं यद्यात्मशानयोगयुक् । तथैव हेतुस्तञ्चेव विवेकज्ञानप्राप्तये ॥ ६ ॥
Non-attachment (renunciation, compassion ) etc. are fruitful only when accompanied by soul-knowledge. And otherwise they are the means of attaining self-knowledge only.
Commentary :-If the external rites are followed by a soul-knower, he reaches liberation. Others gain soul-knowledge by