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शुद्धोपयोग अधिकार
12 - THE PURE-COGNITION
nature of real (niscaya) repentance (pratikramaņa), renunciation (pratyākhyāna), expiation (prāyaścitta), confession (ālocanā), selfadoration (niyama), etc., which promote spiritual advancement. It also expounds the nature of the inauspicious (aśubha), the auspicious (subha) and the pure (suddha) cognition (upayoga). The study of this Scripture involves two meanings: 1) the meaning of the individual gāthā, and 2) the meaning of the Scripture itself. The meaning of the individual gāthā has been provided in the accompanying text. The meaning of the Scripture itself is expounded now. This Scripture - Niyamasāra – is the Word of the Omniscient Lord. It has the power to bestow the true follower with ineffable happiness of liberation that is utterly rid of attachment, without obstruction, eternal, and sense-independent. Such happiness is attained by meditating on the perfect-soul-substance - the cause-soul (paramātmatattva, kāraṇa paramātmā) - which is pristine, and endowed with four qualities of infinite-knowledge, imperishable, indestructible, and indivisible. This Scripture is adorned by various points-of-view (naya). It leads to the fifth stage of existence. It has been composed by the digambara ascetic (nirgrantha muni) whose only possession is his body and who is rid of the influence of the five senses (indriya). Worthy men, aspiring for supreme happiness, who comprehend this Scripture without contradiction of the empirical (vyavahāra) and the transcendental (niscaya) points-of-view are able to adopt conduct that leads their souls to the desired goal. Leaving aside the twenty-four kinds of possessions, external and internal, and by concentrating on the pure (śuddha) and inseparable (abheda) "Three Jewels (ratnatraya) - right faith (samyagdarśana), right knowledge (samyagjñāna), and right conduct (samyakcăritra) - they attain eternal happiness appertaining to the perfect-soul-substance (paramātmatattva, kāraṇa paramātmā).
इस प्रकार श्री कुन्दकुन्दाचार्य विरचित नियमसार ग्रन्थ में शद्धोपयोग अधिकार नाम का बारहवाँ अधिकार समाप्त हआ।
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