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SAMAYASARA.
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Commentary. This Gatha summarises all what is previously explained. The true self-knower does not desire any other substance or thought activity except his own pure thought-activity of self-absorption. He is not dependent upon any other thing for acquiring Peace and Happiness, which he independently realises in his own soul. He is just like a perfect soul quite contented, desireless, with full attention to his pure knowledge, independent in his own activity. Desire is a hinderance to self-realisation. As perfect soul is desireless, so an aspirer after that status must also be desireless.
उप्पण्णोदयभोगे विमोगवुद्धीय तस्स सो णिचं । कंखामणागदस्सय उदयस्त ण कुव्वदेणाणी ॥ २२८॥
उत्पन्नोदय भोगे वियोगबुद्धिश्च तस्य स नित्यं । कांक्षामनागतस्य चोदयस्य न करोति ज्ञानी ॥ २२८ ॥
228. And in that knower there ever is renunciatory attitude to the enjoyment produced by the operation (of Karmas). He entertains no desire for future and present (enjoyments).
Commentary. A right knower is so enamoured of his own bliss that he does not indulge in any enjoyment, whatsoever, brought about by the operation of his agreeable Karmas. He wishes to be free from such indulgence. Neither does he crave, in the present, or for future, any agreeable object of enjoyment. His aim of life is self-absorption. A saint who has controlled his desires altogether, by subsidence of full-vow-preventing passions is quite unattached to any sense object. He takes only such food and water as has been prepared by a layman for his own family use; and that also not under the influence of taste or desire, but simply to keep up the body. He looks to the purity and not to the taste of food and water. Impure food is harmful in the practice of meditation, so he would not take it. He is possessionless, houseless, and clotheless. Laymen in the 4th and 5th spiritual stages living with family and engaged in different worldly occupations are also right knowers in knowledge and belief. They are also desireless. Their attention is also directed to enjoyment of the soul's pure and independent happiness and peace. But on account of the operation of partialvow-preventing passions, they have not got rid of the desire for enjoyment : yet they believe such desires to be diseases, and not
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