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SAMAYASARA.
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परमम्मिय अठिदो जो कुणदि तवं वदं च धारयदि । तं सव्वं वालतवं वालवदं विति सव्वर्ण ॥ १५६ ॥ परमार्थे चास्थितः करोति यः तपो व्रतं च धारयति । तत्सर्व बालतपो बालवतं विदंति सर्वज्ञाः ॥ १५ ॥
159. He, who performs austerities and observes vows, without being absorbed (in his) highest Soul, (is) altogether (engaged in) chillish austerities and childish vows (taken without right belief). So say the all-knowing.
___Commentary. The external disciplines of observing the thirteen kinds of conduct, and of engaging in austerities, are merely the auxiliary causes to attainment of the stage of an Arhat. If there is neither belief, nor knowledge, nor conduct, of self-absorption, all the austerities of saints and all their vows, are wrong austerities and wrong vows. The observance of external conduct, in the letter of the scriptures, without right belief, is wrong conduct and cannot lead to liberation. Such ascetics performing severe austerities and following the 13 pointed conduct may reach to the 9 Graiveyaka and become Ahamindras, yet they are wrong-believers throughout. Their mundane births and deaths shall not cease.
वदणियमाणिधरंता सीलाणि तहा तवं च कुव्वंता। परमवाहिरा जेण तेण ते होंति अरणाणी ॥ १६० ॥ व्रतनियमान् धारयंतः शीलानि तथा तपश्च कुर्वाणाः। परमार्थबाह्या येन तेन ते भवन्त्यज्ञानिनः ॥ १६० ॥
180. Observing the vows and resolutions, and performing the subsidiary vows and austerities, they are unknowing, because they are away from (realization of) the highest Soulpurity.
Commentary. Our knowledge becomes right knowledge when we realize the non-attached pure Self as the path of liberation. Observance of external right conduct consisting of vows and austerities is an auxiliary cause for such self-realization. Those who devotedly follow the outward conduct only, and do not care for the realization of the True and real self-nature, they will bind meritorious
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