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CHAPTER VII
Mayoifdgtai gag qå agaìsfa a anzà | तद्गृहाणसु पदमिदं यदीच्छसि कर्मपरिमोक्षम् ॥२०५
205. Those who are devoid of this attribute of knowledge even though their efforts be several, do not attain this state. If you desire complete liberation from bondage, you must contemplate upon this pure state of knowledge.
COMMENTARY
What is contemplated is the ideal. One who contemplates is the person who desires the ideal. By constant contemplation of the ideal, a person aiming at the goal comes nearer and nearer to it till he finds himself identified with that very ideal. This psychic effort of aiming at the ideal through the act of contemplation is here pointed out as the necessary means of realising the true nature of the Self. Further it is implied that the nature of the ideal contemplated upon is of great importance. The popular view that one who contemplates with devotion upon an ideal whose nature may be anything is really contemplating upon the supreme paramatma is incompatible with the Jaina Siddhanta.
gaftg zat food eggì àìfe forsañafte i
एदेण होहि तित्तो तो होहदि तुह उत्तमं सोक्खं ॥ २०६ ॥ edamhi rado niccam samtuṭṭho hohi niccamedamhi edena hohi titto to hohadi tuha uttamam sokkham, (206) gaftng cat fazi eiget na fazaĤaftxa |
एतेन भव तृप्तः तर्हि भविष्यति तवोत्तमं सौख्यम् ॥ २०६॥
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206. Oh! Good Soul, (Turning away from the pleasures and fixing your attention always on the pure nature of the Self), always be in love with it and hence be happy and satisfied, for surely that will lead you to the future everlasting supreme bliss of mokşa.
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को नाम भणिज्ज बुहो परदव्वं मममिदं हवदि दव्वं । अप्पाणमप्पणी परिग्गहं तु णियदं वियागंतो ॥२०७॥
ko nama bhanijja baho paradavvam mamamidam havadi davvam appāṇamappano pariggaham tu niyadam viyāṇamto (20Z)
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