Book Title: Light Of Soul
Author(s): Motilal Muljibhai Shah
Publisher: Veerchandra Jain Sabha

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________________ ( 8 ) tion. Farge: ( feminine noun from fome to accomplish) accomplishment, or superhuman power. He alone and none else, attains final emancipation, (he) whose mind is totally free from worldly attachment, whose virtuous preceptor is a knower of real truth and whose firm convictions are always based upon self-realisation. Notes:- This verse clearly points out the means for attaining final bliss. One should abandon all desires for worldly enjoyinents. He should look upon worldiness fatal to bis spiritual progress. Neither pleasure nor pain, nor friends nor relatives, nor even life and death should enchain his mind. He must completely renounce all worldly attachments. He alone deserves the name of a preceptor, who has mastered religious principles, whose conduct is quite pure with the rigid observance of the great vows ordained in the scriptures, who is ready for the good of others by thoroughly propounding scriptural ordinances, and has 'freed himself from attchment and aversoin.

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