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b) Formula concerning body abandonment (kāyotsarga):
“As long I am in this meditation, I shall patiently suffer all calamities that may befall me, are they caused by an animal, a human being or a god. I renounce, for the duration of it, my body, all food and all passions. I abandon, with my body, mind and speech, attachment, aversion, fear, sorrow, joy, anxiety, self-pity... I further renounce all delight and all repulsion of sexual nature. Whether it is life or death, whether gain or loss, whether defeat or victory, whether meeting or separation, whether friend or enemy, whether pleasure or pain, I have equanimity towards all.
"In the attainment of knowledge, insight and proper conduct, the cause is invariably nothing but my own soul; similarly, my soul is the cause for both the influx and the stopping of “karma”.
"One and eternal is my soul, characterized by intuition and knowledge; all other states that I undergo are external to me, for they are formed by associations. Because of these associations my soul has suffered the chains of misery; therefore I renounce with body, mind and speech, all relationships based on such associations
“Thus have I attained equanimity and my true self? May this state of equanimity be with me until I attain salvation?”
5. Formulae for self-examination and request for forgiveness
a) Formula for self-examination (alocană)
“I wish to make “alocanā” for whatever fault has been committed by me during the day in body, speech or mind, in contravention of the sacred scriptures and of right conduct, unfitting and improper to done, ill meditated and ill conceived, immoral and undesirable, unbecoming for a layman, in regard to knowledge, philosophy, lay life, "sāmāyika" and transgression or infraction I may have committed in respect of the three "gupti”, the four “kaşāya", the five “aņuvrata”,
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