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Samadhitantram
(vāyu) then death must lead to its annihilation and this annihilation would amount to attainment of liberation. Or, if it is produced, as Sāmkhya believe, by the eternally pure soulnature then it must remain pure in all states and conditions, including after death. Both hypotheses lead to the conclusion that no special effort is required to attain the state of liberation; this conclusion is not gratifying to either. Therefore, rejecting both hypotheses, the right believer concludes that one can attain liberation only through persistent effort to suppress undesirable activities of the body, the speech and the mind, and through meditation on the pure soul. The yogi, therefore, does not have any sense of suffering while observing severe austerities, while meditating, and on occurrence of calamities.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The soul substance-myth and reality
Incalculably long years ago, the kingdom of Alkapuri was celebrating birthday of its great king Mahābala, the tenth earlier incarnation of the first Tirthankara Lord Ādinātha. A great thinker, Mahabala was not only extremely handsome but highly virtuous and had won over the hearts of his subjects by his extraordinary personality and sense of justice. He had four ministers Mahamati, Sambhinnamati, Śatamati and Svayambuddha - all extremely intelligent, caring, and far-sighted. While Svayambuddha was a right-believer (samyagdṛṣṭi), the other three were wrong-believers (mithyādṛṣṭi). All four were dear to king Mahabala.
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King Mahābala was seated, with much pomp and grandeur, in his court, surrounded by ministers, chieftains, kings and courtiers. Finding King Mahābala in extremely good mood, Svayambuddha, endowed with sharp intellect and pleasing manners, started the
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