Parmatma Prakash

Author(s): Yogindra Acharya
Publisher: Central Jaina Publishing House

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PARMATMA-PRAKASH.
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85. Having got the Kala Labdhi (opportune time) the more one's Moha (ignorance or illusion) is destroyed, the more he gets Shuddha-Atma Rupa Samyak Darshana (right belief in the pure nature of Atman) and begins to reflect upon the self from the Nischaya point of view.
86. Atman (soul) is neither white, nor black; neither Sukshma (fine), nor Sthool (gross); He is the Jñana Swarupa (embodiment of knowledge, or pure consciousness, by nature); only a Jñani (wise man) knows thus.
87. Atman is neither a Brahman, nor a Vaish; neither a Kshatriya nor a Sudra; neither male, female, nor eunuch; He is the Jñana Swarupa (embodiment of knowledge, or pure consciousness, by nature) and by His Jñana knows all.
88. Atman is neither a Yati (saint), nor a Guru (teacher); he is neither a Sanyasi, nor an Udâsi, nor a Dandi, etc.; he is the Jñana Swarupa (embodiment of knowledge); it is only a Jñani (a sage) who knows the Atman.
89. Atman is neither a teacher, nor a disciple; he is neither a king, nor a beggar; neither brave nor a coward; neither high nor low; he is the Jñana Swarupa (embodiment of knowledge); the Jñani alone knows the Atman.
90. Atman is neither a human nor a celestial being; he is neither Tiryancha (belonging to the animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom), nor a Nârki (resident of hell). Atman is pure consciousness; only the Jñanis know the Âtman.
91. Atman is neither learned nor foolish; he is neither wealthy, nor poor; he is neither old, nor young; all these conditions are produced by Karmas.
92. Atman is neither Punya (virtue), nor Pâpa (evil); Âtman is neither Kâla (time) nor Âkâsha (space); he is neither Dharma, the medium of motion, nor Adharma, the medium of coming to rest from motion. Atman is neither a compound of Pudgal (matter), such as the body, etc.; he is Chaitanya Swarupa (intelligent), never loses his consciousness and never becomes another.
93. Âtman consists in Sanyama (control of senses and mercy on the living beings with six kinds of bodies), Shila (freedom from lust, etc.), Tapa (asceticism), Darshana (seeing), and Jñana (knowing) by nature, and is Avinashi (imperishable), and Moksha-roop (free by nature); Atman alone can know itself.