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That which is the highest self is not the subject of any viewpoint. Consequently, that the highest self) alone acquires the designation of spiritual awakening and spiritual (value) knowledge. (The three), namely, spiritual awakening, value-knowledge, and ethico-spiritual conduct should be adored by the saint.But from the transcendental point of view know these three alone to be the self without any doubt The self who has been identified with these three (spiritual awakening, value-knowledge and ethico spiritual conduct) neither accepts even a little quantity of any other thing nor renounces. Thus from the transcendental point of view that (self) alone has been said to be the means of liberation (equanimity). Oh man ! the self who is absorbed in himself is certainly an awakened one. That which knows the self is spiritual knowledge and abiding in the self is the way of conduct Verily, for me the self is knowledge, for me the self is spiritual awakening and conduct, for me the self is the resolution to renounce vice and for me the self is restraint and meditation
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(18) Of spiritual Awakening (A) Spiritual Awakening from the Empirical Standpoint:
Spiritual Awakening from the Transcendental standpoint.
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Among the three Jewels, spiritual awakening is the best. (lt) has been said to be the basis of the great tree of liberation. Again, there are two kinds of the nature of spiritual awakening , namely empirical and transcendental. That (spiritual awakening) is known as such. It has been propounded by the Arahantas (embodied spiritually perfect personalities) (that) from the empirical point of view, the belief in the Jiva, etc. (spiritual principles) is styled spiritual awakening, and (that) from the transcendental point of view, the self alone corresponds with spiritual awakening.
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