Book Title: Jainism by Vividus
Author(s): Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada

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________________ believed their soul, from where all enemies of five senseorgans and four vices are destroyed, as the true and appropriate seat for such observance. 23. Oh, true aspirant for liberation! Such external objects as stated above or your worship by people or even company of all sectors of society (male saints, female saints, householder men and women) are not the means to observa "samayika" properly and correctly. For that observance or performance, you have to only concentrate and contemplate intensely internally 24. Oh, true aspirant for liberation ! Leaving all external matters and thoughts, always try to be steady and unwavering in and concentrate, contemplate or meditate upon the nature of your own soul which is all knowledge, power, peace, and bliss. Firmly determine that whatever is outside your soul does not belong to you. Nor do you belong to them. 25. Ohi true aspirant for liberation ! You are the seer of your own self as purè soul with intrinsic properties of all consciousness and knowledge, When any saint concentrating his mind becomes absorbed in meditation, he is able to realise the state of perfection in which there is complete identification and equanimity with all. 26. Oh, true aspirant for liberationAlways contemplate thus : my soul is ever one, indestructible and pure with fundamental nature of omniscience. All .Jiva' (embodied souls) outside my soul are self-created by their own accumulation of karma matter and therefore they are destructible and subject to changes in their forms or modifications. 27. How can the soul who is not one even with his body, be one with his son, wife, friend eic.? If skin can be removed from the body, how can pores of the skin still exist there ? Pores only belong to ithe skin: 102

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