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Commentary. The soul in its purity does not take in any other soul and nonsoul substance, and there is no question of the riddance of anything. Every soul is always a separate identity. It never loses its individuality. It remains always the same enjoying all its inseparable attributes. “I am a pure soul with no connection whatsoever with another”-this constant meditation leads the meditator to the condition of Samayasára, "the essence of soul.”
पाखंडियलिंगाणि य गिहलिंगाणिय वहुप्पयाराणी। घित्तुं वदति मूढा लिंगमिणं मोक्खमग्गोत्ति ॥ ४३०॥ पाखंडिलिंगानि च गृहलिंगाजि च बहुप्रकाराणि । गृहीत्वा वदंति मूढा लिंगमिदं मोक्षमार्ग इति ॥ ४३० ॥
430. The ignorant persons say that the adoption of the external marks of ascetics, or of householders of many kinds, is the only way to Liberation.
Commentary. External practical conduct of laymen and saints, with their different forms, is merely an auxiliary cause for acquiring real trinity of internal conduct. Those who are ignorant of the real path of liberation which is only self-absorption, are satisfied with the perverse knowledge that mere external conduct will lead them to liberation.
णय होदि मोक्खमग्गो लिंगं जं देहणिम्ममा अरिहा । लिंगं मुइत्तु दंसणणाणचरित्ताणि सेवंति ॥ ४३१॥ न तु भवति मोक्षमार्गो लिंगं यद्देहनैर्ममका अहंतः। लिंगं मुक्त्वा दर्शनज्ञानचरित्राणि सेवन्ते ॥ ४३१ ॥
431. The mark merely is never the way to Liberation, because the Arhats (adorables) who have given up attachment to the body, and ignored the mark, have realized right belief and knowledge and conduct.
__Commentary. The mere outward nudity of body is not the path of Liberation. Self-absorption is the real path of Liberation. Even severe
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