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peace and all happiness, etc. These attributes may be obscured by Karmic impurities, but are never lost. A right knower after once acquiring right knowledge and being firm in retaining it, does not give up this belief even if he is attacked by numerous insufferable sufferings through operation of past Karmas. Again a right knowing layman or ascetic, if he is absorbed in self-realisation for a limited time or for the whole life, is not affected by the severest sufferings.
एवं जाणदि गाणी अण्णाणी मुणदि रागमेवाई। अण्णागतमोच्छण्णो आदसहावं अयाएंतो ॥ १६२ ॥ एवं जानाति ज्ञानी अज्ञानी मनुते रागमेवात्मानं । अज्ञानतमोऽवच्छन्नमात्मस्वभावमजानन् ॥ १६२॥
192. Thus the knower realises itself. (But) the perverse soul, obscured by the darkness of ignorance, (and) not realising the nature of the soul takes attachment itself for the soul.
Commentary. A right knower is quite confident of the true nature of soul as free from all sorts of delusion, love, hatred. He is on the path of Liberation. He realises his soul and is gradually freed from Karmic bondage. A wrong believer, in his perverse knowledge, due to operation of strong wrong-belief and error-feeding-passions, never realises this reality. He maintains his own soul to be of the nature of love, hatred, etc., and is therefore always impure.
सुद्धं तु वियाणंतो सुद्धमेवप्पयं लहदि जीवो। जाणंतो दु असुद्धं असुद्धमेवप्पयं लहदि ॥ १६३॥ शुद्धं तु विजानन शुद्धमेवात्मानं लभते जीवः । जानंस्त्वशुद्धमशुद्ध मेवात्मानं लभते ॥ १६३ ॥
193. And realising the pure soul, the soul becomes the pure soul itself. But realising the impure soul (it) becomes impure soul itself.
Commentary. A right believer advances in self-purification by his conscious realisation of his pure soul. Self analysis and Self-realisation lead
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