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PATII OF LIBERATION
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(271) He, who devoid of all attachment and withdrawing one's mind from everything else, definitely knows and sees one's soul in its own true nature, practises what constitutes one's own conduct (i.e. Svabhāva).
(272) If one performs austerities (tapas) or observes vows (vratas) without fixed contemplation on the Supreme Self, the omniscients call all that childish austerity (balatapa) and childish vow (bālavrata).
(273) One who eats once in a month through the tip of kusagrass does not attain even the sixteenth part of what constitutes religion well proclaimed.
(274) Right Conduct is really what constitutes religion; it is said that religion is equanimity.Equanimity is that condition of the soul which is free from delusion and excitement.
(275) Equanimity, tolerance, pure-thought, freedom from attachment and hatred, (Right) conduct, religion, devotion to one's own self-all of these are said to be one and same.
(276) That monk, is said to possess pure consciousness (comprising darśana and Jñana) who has understood the real nature of the substances, is endowed with self-restraint and penance, is free from attachment and maintains equanimity (of mind) both in happiness and sorrow.
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