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Preface
itself, takes birth. As it gets rid of all dirt, alone it attains liberation. The soul (ātmā) alone belongs to me; all concomitant dispositions are external to me. I renounce all blemishes of conduct (caritra) by the threefold purity - of the mind, the speech and the body - and adopt the threefold conduct (căritra) that is supreme (nirākāra). I observe equanimity (sāmyabhāva) toward all living beings, I have no enmity toward any of them; renouncing all desires, I certainly establish myself in supreme meditation (samadhi).
He, who is free from passions (kasaya), controls the senses (indriya), endures afflictions (parīşaha), makes effort to enhance the purity of the soul, and frightened of the cycle of transmigration, attains blissful renunciation (pratyākhyāna).
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The Supreme Confession (Introspection)
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Meditation on the soul that is rid of nokarma (five kinds of bodies), (eight kinds of) karmas, and unnatural (vibhāva) modes (paryāya), is confession (ālocană). The Scripture has classified confession (alocanā) into four kinds - 1)ālocana - vigilant of faults; 2) aluńchana - eradication of faults; 3) avikrtikarana - removal of perversions; and 4) bhāvasuddhi - purity of thoughts. The ascetic, who, after establishing his soul (ātmā) in its own-nature, sees (and experiences) only such a soul, is ālocana, i.e., vigilant of faults. The soul established in its inherent nature or capacity (parināma), that is self-dependent (svādhina) equanimity (samabhāva), is called āluńchana - eradication of faults. Meditation, with equanimity (madhyastha-bhāva), on the soul that is utterly distinct from the karmas and is the abode of pristine qualities (guņa), should be known as avikrtikaraņa -removal of perversions. The disposition (bhāva) that is rid of lust (mada, madana), pride (māna), deceitfulness (māyā), and greed (lobha) is the purity of thoughts – bhāvasuddhi.
8. The Real Expiation Tesfagarelyreifaltirfetchle Expiation (prāyaścitta) is the dispositions (bhāva) of observing vows (vrata), carefulness (samiti), supplementary vows (šila), and self
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