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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
He does not transform the soul (ātmā) into impure state of union with other-substances (paradravya). Only such a soul (ātmā) attains its pure nature of knowledge - as the jñāyaka. Contemplating in the aforesaid manner, the soul (ātmā) establishes its utter distinctiveness with all other-substances (paradravya), in its impure as well as the pure state.1
Acārya Pujyapada's Istopadesa:
एकोऽहं निर्ममः शुद्धो ज्ञानी योगीन्द्रगोचरः । बाह्याः संयोगजा भावा मत्तः सर्वेऽपि सर्वथा ॥२७॥
मैं एक, ममत्व-रहित, शुद्ध, ज्ञानी, योगीन्द्रों के द्वारा जानने योग्य हूँ। संयोगजन्य जितने भी देहादिक पदार्थ हैं वे मुझसे सर्वथा बाह्य-भिन्न हैं।
I am one, without infatuation, pure, all-knowing, and capable to be known by the Master Ascetics. All attachments, internal and external, are totally foreign to my nature.
1- Excerpted with minor changes from Acārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra - Essence of the Doctrine, p. 160-161.
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