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THE ESSENCE OF JAINA SCRIPTURES
Accordingly, since from the certitude that the self, when evolved into or reduced to the state of being knowable (ineyatam apanna) (cf. Pravachanasara, 32 and 42) is not pure, a realization of the principle (tattva) of pure self entity results from establishment of the principle (tattva) of knowledge,
welcoming now this (realization of the principle of pure self), he concludes the exposition of substance in general:
II.34. If the shramana is sure in his conviction that the soul itself is agent, instrument, act and fruit, and does not evolve into something else, then he conceives the (real nature of the) pure self. (126)
He who, after having thus ascertained that the self is agent, instrument, act and fruit of the act, no more evolves into the strange (other) substance, attains the pure self, which has exhausted its commingling with strange substances and whose modifications are dissolved in its substance; but none else succeeds in this.
Thus, in the days when the manifestations (vrtti) of my self were coloured by passion (uparaga), which rushed forth owing to the vicinity of accessory conditions, namely the bondage by material-karman, familiar from all time, -like a crystal gem, whose manifestations are coloured by a hue (uparaga) which rushes forth owing to the vicinity of the China rose-and when I was a transmigrating soul with a secondary-nature (vikara), superinduced by the other,” even then no one belonged to me;
even then I, alone, was agent, independent as I was by my thoughtnature, although impassioned;
even then I, alone, was instrument, nearest-cause (sadhakatama) as I was by my thought-nature, although impassioned;
even then I, alone, was deed, attained by the self as I was, through the innate nature of the evolutions of my thought, although impassioned;
even then I, alone, was the fruit of the deed, happiness, or, with reversed qualities, misery, effected by the innate nature of the evolutions of my thought, although impassioned.
And at present, when the manifestations of the self, completely pure and original, flash forth in consequence of the dissolution of the presence of an accessory-condition, namely bondage by materialkarman, familiar from the beginning, -like a crystal gem, when the manifestations of its self, completely pure and original, flash forth
