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Preface
He, who does not entertain quasi-passions (nokaśāya) of laughter (hāsya), liking (rati), grief (śoka), and disliking (arati), attains enduring equanimity. Acārya Kundakunda concludes by saying that he, who is incessantly engaged in virtuous-meditation (dharmyadhyāna) and puremeditation (sukladhyāna), attains enduring equanimity.
10. The Supreme Devotion
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Devotion (bhakti) to liberation (nirvāna) is devotion to the 'Three Jewels' (ratnatraya) – right faith (samyagdarśana), right knowledge (samyagjñāna), and right conduct (samyakcăritra). The one who puts his devotion to the liberated souls - the Siddha, too, is said to have devotion to liberation. Devotion to liberation leads to the attainment of the 'Self that is endowed with the independent (self-dependent) qualities (guna). Only the one who rids his soul of attachment (rāga), etc., and all volitions (vikalpa), has devotion to concentration of the mind - yogabhakti. All great souls have attained Perfect Bliss - nirurti-sukha - only through devotion to concentration of the mind - yogabhakti.
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The Supreme Essential
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To be independent, i.e., not dependent on others, is called the essential (āvasyaka) duty (karma) of the soul (jīva). The essential (āvasyaka) is the means (ukti) of attaining the bodyless (aśarīra) state of the soul. The ascetic (śramaņa) with inauspicious (aśubha) disposition is dependenton-others (anyavasa). The ascetic (śramaņa) who, although adept in restraint (samyama) but engages in auspicious (śubha) disposition, is dependent-on-others (anyavasa). He, whose thought-activities revolve around the substance-quality-mode (dravya-guna-paryāya), too, is dependent-on-others (anyavasa).
He, who meditates on the soul that is pristine (nirmala) by nature, certainly, is self-dependent (avasa or ātmavasa); this is known as the essential-duty (āvaśyaka karma). To attain the essential (āvaśyaka), concentrate on the soul-nature (ātmasvabhāva); this only results in the soul's perfection in asceticism. The ascetic (muni, śramaņa) equipped with the essential (āvasyaka) is the introverted-soul (antarātmā), and the ascetic without the essential (āvasyaka) is the extroverted-soul
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