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revolving through particular cognitions in endless successions;
making friendships with particular external things, made knowable by being occasions of cognitions;
exclusively turned outwards through weakening of the discriminative insight of the self;
and following after the duality of attachment and aversion, leading to further accumulation of material karman,
is very far indeed from the attainment of itself.
But when this same, its whole knowledge-side provoked to action by the aggressive karman-side, accomplishes in regard to the beginningless material karman, first, a knowledge of the distinction of the destroyed and the destroyer, and then a distinction (of itself), and, with its mental-moods calmed in the majesty of its exclusive selfexperience, abides absolutely undisturbed, like the ocean, in itself, and, pervading simultaneously all particular cognitions, no more changes, since for that there is no room, then it continues no more its friendship with particular external things, made knowable by being occasions of particular cognitions.
Then, exclusively directed inwards through well-established discriminative insight of the self;
and far from following after the duality of attachment and aversion, leading to accumulation of material matter;
it attains its holy self, never before realized and having for nature unparalleled knowledge and bliss!
May the world too reach the supreme self, having for self knowledge and bliss!
On this subject there is the verse:
“The Truth, deep sunk in the river of the Absolute State [omniscience state) moves along with its great flood of the ambrosia of bliss and having for its glorious face the great consciousness capable of beholding the universe, may the peoples, thanks to the doctrine of the Jina, which has for emblem the word 'Quodammodò' (syatkara), attain, brilliant, their own, illuminated by the rays of the choice, genuine Jewels, and that what is worth realizing.” (PS Kalash 20)
“Let the folk (men) not leap in the delusion that all universe is expoundable, and therewith the self, and that Amrtachandra Suri is the expositor in his garland of flower words to expound them. Let them leap now unperturbed, with a measure of purified enlightenment,
