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PATH OF LIBERATION
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(516) My soul endowed with knowledge and faith is alone permanently mine; all others are alien to me and are in the nature of external adjuncts.
(517) All the series of miseries suffered by a soul are born of these alien associations; therefore, I sever whole-heartedly contacts from all alien associations,
(518) A foolish person grieves over the death of another person when he has departed to assume another birth but he does not think of his own soul which is suffering in this ocean of mundane existence.
(519) He who reflects over his own soul, after knowing that, in principle, his body is distinct from his soul, achieves effective results.
(520) What is there auspicious in this body, which is constituted of flesh and bone, filled with urine and excrement, and foul matter through nine openings?
(521) Thus absorbed in an experience of calmness the person who renounces the mental state born of delusion-- considering that they are worth being renounced-truly undertakes deep reflection related to karmic inflow.
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