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

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________________ 28. This embodied soul suffers innumerable kinds of painful experiences, owing to its association with external objects in this forest of 'samsara' (embodied world). Therefore, those aspiring total liberation from the cycles of births and deaths should leave this association in thought, word and body. 29. Constantly persevere to get absorbed in your own soul principle, considering yourself separate and distinct from all objects of the world and removing all ensnaring nets that continue cycles of births and deaths in the 'samsara' (embodied world). 30. All embodied souls enjoy or suffer their own karma accumulated over the past ages in their innumberable past lives only. If instead, they are able to do so as caused by something or some one else, their own karma prove to be of no use or avail, 31. It is but most appropriate and essential that an embodied soul, like one's self, always remains conscious that he enjoys or suffers the fruits of his own accumulated karma and gives up forever thinking about someone or something else. causing him to enjoy or suffer. 32. All embodied souls who always contemplate and meditate upon the principle of this most admirable highest soul who is separate from all others and who is the object of worship for all saints and scholars, including Acharya Amitagati, the author of this song. attain, without fall, highest wealth of total emancipation (Mukti or Moksha'), 33. Whichever embodied soul in concentration by these thirtytwo stanzas of the song experiences the realisation of the Highest soul himself without fail, attains this immortal state. Note: This song, in contemplation of equality and equanimity consciousness composed in meter known as "Upajiati," is more recent compared to the 103

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