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wicked men but being compelled by circumstances if she has to go there but does not indulge in adultery then she is assuredly chaste. Similarly, the passionless state of Upayoga should not be engaged deliberately in the other objects which are the causes of attachmentaversion, etc. and if effortlessly such objects are known and feelings of attachment, etc. are not developed then such state of Upayoga is pure only. Therefore, believing that on undergoing the afflictions of woman, etc., the monks do not know them at all and remain engrossed in the self-soul only, is wrong. They do know them but do not develop attachment, etc.
Thus, it should be known that the passionless disposition of Upayoga can persist even on knowing the other non-self substance.
Further, he says-"If it is so, then how is in the Shastras stated that the belief - knowledge - conduct of self-soul is the right-beliefknowledge - conduct?"
Answer: Above discourse is meant for getting rid of the belief - knowledge - conduct of oneness in other non-self substances persisting in Jivas from times immemorial. On evolution of belief - knowledge - conduct of the self in the self - soul only when the beliefknowledge-conduct of keeping proclivity of attachment-aversion, etc. in the non-self sub-stances get mitigated then the right belief, etc. are produced. If the right belief, etc. are not evolved by believing the other non-self substances to be the non-self substances then the Kewali (omniscient) also would not be found possessing these. So long as one believes the non-self substances to be bad and self-soul substance to be good till then the attachment-aversion feelings are obviously found persisting. But when one knows the self-soul to be the self and the non-self to be the non-self and believes and acts accordingly, then only the right belief, etc. are evolved.
Therefore, what more to state- “By whatever way, the faith of uprooting the attachment, etc. passions is evolved, the same faith is the right belief; by whatever way knowledge of uprooting the attachment, etc. passions is evolved, the same is the right knowledge and by whatever way the attachment, etc. passions are uprooted, the same very conduct is the right conduct - believing the path of
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