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attachment and perturbation. (Hence equanimity has been equated with the ethico-spiritual.conduct). .
140. The psychical state of the Sramana (saint) by whom
spiritual principles and the Agamas (scriptures) have been rightly comprehended, who is accupied with austerity and self-restraint, by whom attachment has been done away with, by whom pleasure and pain have been considered to be basically the same, (the psychical state of the Sramana) has been proclaimed to be pure awareness.
141. The state of the enlightened one has been said to be the
state of saintliness; the state of the enlightened one has also been proclaimed to be the state of spiritual awakening and spiritual knowledge; again, the state of the enlightened one has been said to be the state of Nirvana (supreme peace). Finally, the enlightened person has deen regarded as the realiser of the highest object in life. Therefore, my reverence is for him.
142. The happiness of those who have been adorned with
spiritual experience is excellent, supersensuous, unique, infinite, incessant and is born of the self.
143. In the mind of the saint for whom pleasure and pain are
basically the same, there do not exist any attachment and aversion in regard to things and there does not occur spiritual forgetfulness in his mind). Besides, neither the auspicious (Karma) nor the inauspicious (Karma) creep into his self.
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