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PRAVACANASARA.
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93. The soul, though standing in the midst of matter all the while, neither accepts nor abandons, nor is the agent of material Karmas.
94. The soul, at present (i. e. in this transmigratory.condition), being the agent of its own modification constituted out of its own substance, is sometimes bound up with or released from Karmic dust.
95. When the soul, under the influence of attachment or aversion, develops itself into auspicious or inauspicious resultant of consciousness, the Karmic dust pours into it in the form of knowledge-obscuring etc.
*4. The fruition of auspicious or inauspicious types (of Karmas) is intensified by pure and soiled attitudes (respectively); but in reverse to that, all the types have minimum intensity.
96. The soul, which has space-points, when soiled by infatuation, attachment and aversion, is clung by Karmic dust; and that is called bondage in the scripture.
97. The Arahantas have preached to the ascetics or saints this discourse in short on the bondage of the soul from the realistic standpoint of view; the same from the ordinary stand-point of view is something different.
98. He, who does not abandon the notion of mineness over the body and possessions that I am this and this is mine', gives up the s'rāmanya (i. e., the status of a saint) and goes astray.
99. 'I do not belong to others, nor do others belong to me; I am mere knowledge': he, who meditates thus in concentration, comes to meditate on his (pure) self.
100. Thus I consider myself to be constituted of knowledge and faith, supersensuous, a great objectivity, eternal, stable, independent and
pure.
101. Bodies, possessions, happiness, misery, friends or enemies are not the eternal associates of the soul; the soul is eternally constituted of the manifestation of consciousness.
102. He, who, knowing this and being pure in self, meditates on that highest Self, whether he is a layman or an ascetic, destroys the dangerous knot of delusion.
103. He, who has destroyed the knot of delusion, who has over
1. Compare II, 29 & 86 ante.
