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Samādhitantram
जातिलिङ्गविकल्पेन येषां च समयाग्रहः । तेऽपि न प्राप्नुवन्त्येव परमं पदमात्मनः ॥८९॥
अन्वयार्थ - ( येषां) जिन जीवों का (जातिलिङ्गविकल्पेन) जाति और वेश के विकल्प से मुक्ति होती है ऐसा (समयाग्रहः) आगम-सम्बन्धी आग्रह है - ब्राह्मण आदि जाति में उत्पन्न होकर या अमुक वेष धारण करने से ही मुक्ति होती है - ऐसा आगमानुबन्धि हठ है (ते अपि) वे पुरुष भी ( आत्मनः)
आत्मा के ( परमं पदं) परम पद को (न प्राप्नुवन्त्येव ) प्राप्त नहीं कर सकते हैं - संसार से मुक्त नहीं हो सकते हैं।
Those who insist, citing scriptural testimony, that caste and external symbol are essential to attaining liberation, also do not attain liberation.
Note: The Scripture mentions, from the empirical point of view (uyavahāra naya), that caste and external symbol are instrumental causes (nimitta kāraṇa) for the soul to attain liberation. From the transcendental point of view (niscaya naya), however, the soul itself is the substantial cause (upādāna kārana) for attainingliberation.
Moreover, assertions in the Scripture are based on the doctrine of conditional predications (syādvāda) which affirms that there are different facets of reality and these have to be understood from various points of view by the predications of affirmation, negation and indescribability. Realities of bondage and liberation, causes of these, attributes of the soul that is bound with karmas and the soul that is liberated, can only be incontrovertibly explained with the help of the doctrine of conditional predications (syādvāda), certainly not by absolutistic views.
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