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Niyamasara
नियमसार
consciousness (cetanā).
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The Pure Thought-activity
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The external objects - souls (jīva), etc. - are worth rejecting. Only the own-soul - nijātmā or paramātmā - rid of impurities of qualities (guņa) and modes (paryāya) due to bondage with the karmas, is worth accepting. The soul (ātmā) in its pure, nirupādhi state has no place for thoughtactivities, honour and dishonour, pleasure and pain, duration-bondage (sthitibandhasthāna), nature-bondage (prakrtibandhasthāna), fruitionbondage (anubhāgabandhasthāna), and quantity-of-space-pointsbondage (pradeśabandhasthāna). It has no dispositions or thoughtactivities - bhāva - arising from the destruction (ksaya), the destructioncum-subsidence (kşayopaśama), the fruition (udaya), or the subsidence (upaśama), of karmas. It has no wandering in the four states (gati) of existence, birth (janma), old-age (jarā), death (maraṇa), disease (roga), sorrow (śoka), lineage (kula), seat-of-birth (yoni), classes of biological development (jīvasthāna), and variations according to the method of inquiry into its nature (mārgaņāsthāna). It has no activities of the mind, the speech, and the body; it is nirdanda. It is one-only - nirdvandva, without-infatuation - nirmama, without-body-niḥsarīra, independent - nirālamba, without-attachment - nirāga, without-fault - nirdosa, without-delusion - nirmūdha, and without-fear - nirbhaya. It has no possessions - nirgrantha, without-attachment - nirāga, without-stings - niņsalya, free from all defects - sarvadosavimukta, without-desire - niskāma, without-anger - nihkrodha, without-pride - nirmāna, and without-excitement - nirmada. It has no senses indriya) of colour (varņa), taste (rasa), smell (gandha), and touch (sparsa). It has no modes (paryāya) classified as the three sexes - female (strī), male (puruṣa), and neuter (napumsaka). It has no bodily-structure (samsthāna) and bodilyjoints (samhanana). It has no taste (rasa), colour (rūpa or varna) and smell (gandha). It is imperceptible - aprakața. It is with consciousness (cetanā). It is without-sound (aśabda) and cannot be apprehended through a symbol or a sense-organ-alinga-grahana.
From the pure, transcendental point-of-view, the transmigrating souls - samsāri jīva - are same as the liberated souls - siddhātmā - as these too
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