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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
Further, after ascertainment of the true nature of the substances it is not possible to remain engrossed in the contemplation of self-soul in a general way. Knowledge of self-soul and other objects persists in both general and specific (detailed) forms but with the feeling of passionlessness. The same is called Nirvikalpa-Dasha (rambleless state of Upayoga).
There he asks- “All this means generation of various thoughts; how can this be called the Nirvikalpa (unperturbed) state of Upayoga?”
Answer: Thoughtlessness is not called the Nirvikalpa (unperturbed) state of mind, because all knowing of non-omniscients is found with thought. Believing Nirvikalpa-Dasha to be devoid of thoughts would mean absence of knowledge itself, that is to say, the state of senselessness which is not possible in case of soul. Therefore, thought always exists.
One may say here that “In such state) the concentration of thought is only on the indivisible self-soul and on its specialities". But the concentration of thought on the indivisible soul cannot continue for long time and without the knowledge of its specialities the real nature of the indivisible soul cannot be realised.
And if he says that “(In such a Nirvikalpa state) the thought of the self-soul only continues and not of other non-self objects”, then (we ask him) how can the I-ness feeling be evolved in the self-soul without developing non-self feeling in non-self substances?
There he says that in Samayasara it is stated as follows: "भावयेद्विज्ञान मिदमच्छिन्नधारया Cleanerkloogial FH TÀ yfood ll" (+421 130)
It means that the discriminating knowledge should be persisted with so song as the Upayoga does not become free from the thoughts of other substances and gets engrossed in self-soul only. Therefore, on disengagement of Upayoga (discrimi-nating knowledge) from thoughts of self-nonself, the knowing of other substances stops and knowing of the self-soul only continues.
Answer: (This is not the correct sense of above verse). What is stated here is that formerly he was knowing the self and non-self to
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