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suffers pain due to these objects. He considers wealth and other worldly objects as the friends of karmas and, therefore, not in a position to grant happiness to the soul.
The experience of the worldly objects depends on the limited and indirect knowing capacity of the senses; the experience of the inner Self depends on the unlimited and direct knowing capacity of the soul. When the individual's whole attention is turned inward, there results an overwhelming experience of the pure Self. The outside objects of sense-indulgence then appear totally unattractive and inconsequential.
Victory over passions and senses is achieved through the observance of the rules of conduct, as prescribed by Lord Jina. As passions and senses are subdued, interest in the study of the soul is enkindled and that is followed by meditation. Meditation is the culmination of the process of self-study and consists in fixation of the mind on the Ideal of the pure soul. With full detachment from all worldly objects, the Yogi centres his attention on the purity of the soul. He renounces all concerns with worldly activity, the source of the contamination of the purity of the soul.
Meditation secures him against allurements of the objects of the world. He loses all interest in them and if approached by such objects, he remains inattentive to them. The pleasures of the world no longer are able to attract and vitiate his mind. The purity of the soul becomes the subject as well as the object of meditation.
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