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BOOK III: THE CONDUCT
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III.44. If a shramana is not infatuated with reference to objects, and does not feel attachment, nor is subject to aversion (dvesham), then inevitably he destroys the various karmas. (244)
Whoso with single concentration realizes the self, which has knowledge for self, does not addict himself to the other” substance, that is, the knowable. Not being addicted thereto, not fallen away from the knowledge of the self, which has knowledge for self, he stands fast himself as knowledge, and neither is infatuated, nor feels attachment or aversion; and, being so, he becomes released and not bound. Therefore it may be proved that only mental-concentration is the path of liberation.
Thus ends the exposition of the THE PATH OF LIBERATION. Now begins the exposition of good pyshcic attention. Here it is stated that those who possess good psychic attention are also shramanas:
GOOD (SHUBHA) PSYCHIC ATTENTION (VERSES 245-270) III.45. In the Jain scriptures (samaye), shramanas are those endowed with pure psychic-attention and with good psychic attention. Amongst them, those with pure psychic-attention are free from karmic inflow (asrava); the others are subject to karmic inflow. (245)
Those who, though pledged to shramana-hood, are, through survival of a small portion of the passions, unable to ascend to the stage of pure psychic-attention, consisting in an actualization (urtti) of the principle of the self, which has for nature quite pure convictions (drshi) and understanding (jnapti), both active (pravrtta) in renunciation (nivrtti) of all “other” substance—would they, being in the proximity or neighbourhood (upakantha) thereof, with their energies blunted (kunthikrta) by the passions and with their internal organ excessively full of longings (utkanthula), be shramanas or not? As to this a statement is given.
In the first place, good psychic-attention may coinhere with righteousness (dharma), since we have had (PS 11) the description “self evolved through righteousness.”
Therefore, those who possess good psychic-attention would, by reason of the existence of righteousness in them, be shramanas. But they are not on a level (sama-kastha) with chose who possess pure psychic-attention, since those who possess pure psychic-attention,
