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(494) A yogin (monk) who meditates upon the soul in human form equipped with supreme knowledge and faith, is a (real) yogi; he puts an end to all his sins and becomes free from conflicting feelings of pain and pleasure
(495) A monk who sees that soul is distinct from body as well as from all other (external and internal) possessions; becomes free from all attachments and undertakes an absolute renunciation of body as also of all external implements.
(496) That soul verily undertakes meditation which at the time of meditation knows as follows: "I do not belong to the others nor do the others belong to me while I am all alone and of the form of knowledge."
(497) Verily, if a monk, while doing meditation does not attain the knowledge of his real nature of soul, he cannot secure purity; he will be unlucky like a person who fails to secure a precious stone.
(498) One inust undertake meditation over the three states technically called pindastha, padastha and rūprahitatva which respectively stand for an ordinary embodied soul, an embodied soul that has attained omniscience and an emancipated soul.
(499) That Mahavira, having assumed a particular bodily posture and having freed himself from all unsteadiness, undertook meditation. At that time he, free from all worldly desires, would meditatively inspect whatever exist in the upper region, the lower region and the transverse region of the world,
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