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minative knowledge of the Self shall be known as pratyākhyāna or repulsion.
COMMENTARY The alien charactcristics of the empirical Self, since they are foreign to the nature of the Self, get rejected by one who knows the true nature of the Self. This knowledge of the true nature of the Self in its isolation from all alien characteristics forms the indispensable condition of self-purification by the process of discarding all the foreign elements present in the Self. This process known as pratyakhyāna is the great renu nciation or rejection of foreign encuinbrances. Since the discriminative knowledge of the Self is the real and indispensible condition for pralyākhyāna which is the process of self-purification, such knowledge of Self is called the pratyākhyāna, renunciation itself, according to the principle of justifiable identification of cause and effect.
जह णाम कोवि पुरिसो परदव्वमिणं ति जाणिदं चयदि ।
तह सव्वे परभावे पाऊण विमुंचदे णाणी ॥३५॥ jaha ņāma kovi puriso paradavvamiņam ti jāņidum cayadi taha savve parabhāve ņāūņa vimumcade ņāņi (35)
यथा नाम कोऽपि पुरुषः परदन्यमिदमिति ज्ञात्वा त्यजति ।
तथा सर्वान् परभावान् ज्ञात्वा विमुञ्चति ज्ञानी ॥३५॥ 35. As a person rejects a thing brought to him as his own, when he realises through certain marks that it belongs to somebody else, so also, does the sage discard all alien dispositions, as they are foreign to himn.
COMMENTARY The author explains this fact with a practical illustration which is well brought out by the commentators. For example, a person may accept as his own a cloth brought by his washerman which might really belong to somebody else. Due to the ignorance of the real fact, he may put on the cloth. But when the real owner claims it as his own pointing to his proper washerman's mark, the mistake may be recognised and the cloth may be given up as not his own. Similarly a person due
norance inay call as his own the various emotional features
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