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to accummulate meritorious Karmas which when in operation bring about agreeable circumstances. The attachment to such circumstances becomes an auxiliary cause of keeping the soul engrossed in temporal matters, and retards its Spiritual advancement.
अपरिग्गहो अणिच्छो भणिदो णाणीय णिच्छदि अहम्मं । अपरिग्गहो अधम्मस्स जाणगो तेण सो होदि ॥ २२३॥ अपरिग्रहोऽनिच्छो भणितो ज्ञानी च नेच्छत्यधर्म । अपरिग्रहोऽधर्मस्य ज्ञायकस्तेन स भवति ॥ २२३ ॥
223. Desireless is said to be possessionless. So the knower does not desire demeritorious (attention). Therefore not adopting demerit-bringing activity he remains the knower (only).
धम्मच्छि अधम्मच्छी आयासं सुत्तमंगपुव्वेसु।। संगं च तहा णेयं देवमणु अतिरियणेरइयं ॥ २२४ ॥ धर्मार्थी अधर्मार्थी श्राकाशं श्रुतमंग पूर्वेषु । संगं च तथा ज्ञेयं देव मनुष्य तिर्यग् नरकादिकम् ॥ २२४ ॥
224. In the same way it should be known (that he is indifferent to) the substance, medium of motion, to the substance, medium of rest, to space, Anga and Purva scriptures, to possessions and to celestial, human, sub-human, and hellish conditions.
Commentary.
Just as a right knower does not desire for merit and demerít Karmas, so he does not desire to indulge in thoughts of the knowables. Neither does he want to be always engaged in reading scriptures and discussing upon religious doctrines. He also does not long for any mundane condition of life however agreeable it may be. He only aspires for his own natural status of Liberation. It is his only goal. All other matters are viewed by him merely as dramatic actions of mundane souls on the stage of the world. He longs for a calm and quiet, peaceful and happy state of perfect knowledge, withoat any hinderance whatever. Scriptures are the means to acquisition of self-knowledge; when self-knowledge is acquired and self-absorption is practised, no necessity for the
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