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GANADHARA 11
(1972) Hearing that they had become monks, Prabhasa came to the Victor (thinking), 'I shall go, pay my respects to him and wait upon him'.
PRABHASA
(1973) He was addressed by the Victor free from birth, old age and death, and all-knowing and all-seeing, by his name and gotra (as Prabhasa Kaundinya).
(1974) What are you thinking? Your doubt is as to the reality or otherwise of nirvana (emancipation). And you not know the meaning of the words of the Veda. This is what they mean.
(1975) You are thinking 'Is the nirvana of the soul like the extinction of the lamp or is it a state of the form of extinction of pain etc. of it, an existent entity?
(1976) Or the contact of the soul with karman being beginningless, as it is with ākāśa (ether), there cannot be their disjunction and hence there can never be the negation of the worldly state.
(1977) You, like Mandika, recognise the absence here of the conjunction of karma and soul due to knowledge and action even though it be beginningless, as in the case of gold and mineral.
(1978) Existence as hellish beings, etc. is samsara; what jiva is there distinct from the (modes)-hellish etc.? You believe, when that (existence as hellish being etc.) is destroyed, the soul is destroyed.
(1979) (Reply ) There is not recognised the utter destruction of the basic substance-soul, on the destruction of
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