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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS,
to Self-purification. A right-believing layman may be engaged in worldly pursuits and may have impure thought-activities, yet he is never oblivious of the true nature of his soul. While, a man with perverse knowledge, even if he is engaged in severe austerities, does not realise the pure soul and cannot be purified.
अप्पाणअप्पणोरंभिदूण दोसु पुरणपावजोगेसु । दसणसाणह्मिठिदो इच्छाविरदो य अण्णमि ॥१४॥ अज्ञानमात्मना सन्ध्वा द्विपुण्यपापयोगयोः । दर्शनज्ञाने स्थितः इच्छाविरतचान्यस्मिन् ॥ १६४ ॥ जो सव्वसंगमुको झायदि अप्पाणमप्पणो अप्पा । णवि कम्मं णोकम्मं चेदा चिंतेदि एयत्तं ॥ १६५॥ यः सर्वसंगमुक्तो ध्यायत्यात्मानमात्मनात्मा। नापि कर्म नोकर्म चेतयिता चिंतयत्येकत्वं ।। १६५ ॥
194-195. The knower having checked the soul, by itself, from both the vibratory activities of merit and demerit, and being absorbed in (pure) conation and knowledge, by giving up desire for other (substances apart from the soul), and having renounced all attachment (to worldly possessions) contemplates upon the (pure) soul by the soul, and never (contemplates upon) Karmas and quasi-Karmas, (he) meditates upon its oneness.
Commentary.
The means of checking the inflow is self-absorption only. A right knower should withdraw his attention both from good and bad actions. Becoming desireless and non-attached, he should calmly contemplate upon the pure nature of his soul.
अप्पाणं झायंतो दंसणणाणमइओ अणण्णमणो। लहदि अचिरेण अप्पाणमेव सो कम्मणिम्मुकं ॥ १६६॥ श्रात्मानं ध्यायन् दर्शनज्ञानमयोऽनन्यमनाः । लभतेऽचिरेणात्मानमेव स कर्मनिमुक्तं ॥ १६६ ॥
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