Book Title: Essentials of Samadhishataka
Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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________________ 138 Essentials of absolutely different thing. It is never bound up by any sector creed. Those who by undergoing a rigourous penance and restraining the whole of them realise and attain the knowledge of soul can alone reach the Moksha. Contradictory effects of allurement. यत्त्यागाय निवर्तन्ते भोगेभ्यो यदवाप्यते । प्रीति तत्रैव कुर्वन्ति द्वेषमन्यत्र मोहिनः ।। ९० ॥ Those who to weakan the power of senses and to increase the mental strength and courage leave the house and rest in an unpeopled area, the jungle; but their love and pride of body, caste, race, sect do not come 10 an end; and not having had a clear insight of the self-knowledge, hate it and look at it contemptedly; and it is here the contradiction comes in. Such people who have been barred by infatuation, temptation, allurement of body, caste and the like cannot deserve the Moksha.

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