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Verse 40
The Self, by his own nature, is all-knowing and all-perceiving. Still, being covered with the dirt of karmas, he is in the worldly state of births and deaths (samsāra) and does not know all the substances and their various modes.
Jain, Vijay K., Ācārya Kundkund's Samayasāra, p. 77.
The soul is really by nature all knowing and all seeing, all peaceful and all-happy, and in no manner less than all the liberated and perfect souls in the pure conditions. Its impure mundane condition, however, has continuously been going on from beginningless time in conjunction with bondage and operation of material Karmas. These Karmas obscure its true nature and pervert it in wrong belief and knowledge, owing to which it neither knows its own soul correctly, nor the other soul and non-soul substances. Its power of discrimination has been totally marred by deluding Karmas just as drunkenness makes one forget his own house. Under delusion, it has often bound good Karmas also; but they could not help it to know its own reality. Therefore a right believer should not have any attachment with Karmas, the enemies of soul, whether they may be looking nice in form of merit, or ugly in form of demerit. All deeds resulting in bondage of good or bad Karmas must be given up. Only one's own nature should be firmly grasped for safety and liberation.
Jaini, J.L., Samayasāra of Shri Kunda Kunda Achārya, p. 99.
Ācārya Kundkund's Samayasāra
जह णाम को वि पुरिसो रायाणं जाणिदूण सद्दहदि । at a shulef quit strerrestait ue TUT II
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