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Samayasāra
Chapter - 9 (nicchayado) is, in actual reality, (so tu aham) the Self; (and also] (avasesā je bhāvā te majjha pare tti ņādavvā) it should be known (realized) that whatever other psychic states were left behind are alien to the Self (i.e., are non-self).
(Appayam suddham jānamto) Knowing [the ultimate truth] that the Self is the pure (Self and nothing else] (savve bhāve parāie nādum) and having known that all (other) psychic dispositions are alien, (i.e., non-self), (ko ņāma buho) which wise man (majjhaminam ti ya vayanam bhanejja) would make such statement as they (those dispositions) are mine? Annotations (on Verses 9.6 to 9.13) :
In these eight verses (9.6 to 9.13), the learned author prescribed an infallible technique for separating and isolating the pure self and directly experiencing it in its most fundamental state. This, in fact is the process of Bhedavijñāna. In the preceding verses, we discussed the achievement of liberation from the bondage and concluded that, just as a person bound with chains in worldly life, achieves freedom only by breaking the chains, so also, the self attains emancipation only by breaking the bondage of karma. Now in these verses, a reliable method for breaking the chains is prescribed.
Earlier we have already said that in the worldly existence, bondage of karma is a real condition of the self (soul) and though existing from the beginningless time as coeval with the individual, yet it is amenable to be transcended. Final liberation/emancipation is nothing but the disentanglement of the self from the non-self which is karmic matter. It should be remembered that 'demolition of karma' does not mean destruction of karmic matter which is not destroyed but pulled out and separated from the soul. Just as gold, in its natural state is found to be corrupted with impurities in the form of ores from the very emergence of its being, but can be disentangled from it, i.e., purified by a chemical process, so also the self can be disentangled, i.e., purified by a spiritual process. The pure self which is realized is not a new creation in the absolute sense like the pure gold. It was always there but polluted and obscured by the impurity of the karmic matter. In the state of emancipation, the pollution and the obscuration are ended once
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