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pain aissociated with the psychic fact of perception is also determined by the attitude of individual consciousness. When perception and its hedonic reaction in the consciousness are thus entirely determined by the psychological attitude of the individual, it is merely ignorance to take external objects of the perceptual world to be responsible for the hedonic reaction in one's self. The objects in the external world from which the stimuli proceed are entirely physical in nature and hence cannot be directly responsible for the psychic modification, perceptual and hedonic, occurring in the individual consciousness. It is this important psychological truth that is imparted by the author to an unenlightened person who is ignorant of the real nature of perception and the hedonic reaction thereby. If you set your mind in order, if you cease to take interest in the object of the perceptual world, if you direct your attention on your own Self and thus get absorbed in contemplation of the truth and beauty of the Pure Self then the innumerable sense stimuli present in the environment which bombard your sense-organs constantly will be absolutely impotent to disturb you from your selfabsorption, and you will remain enjoying the spiritual bliss which transcends all pleasures derivable from the sense-presented world.
CHAPTER X
Next it is pointed out that the Self which is free from the impure psychic states of attachment and aversion, which remains the pure Knower, will also be rid of the consciousness of being the agent, enjoyer of karmas and continue to be only the pure
consciousness of the Knower.
कम्मं जं पुव्वकयं सुहासुहमणेयवित्थ रविसेसं ।
तत्तो णियत्तए अप्पयं तु जो सो पडिक्कमणं ॥ ३८३ ॥
kammam jam puvvakayaṁ suhasuhamaneyavittharavisesam tatto niyattae appaym tu jo so padikkamaṇam कर्म यत्पूर्वकृतं शुभाशुभमनेकविस्तरविशेषम् । तस्मान्निवर्तयत्यात्मानं तु यः स प्रतिक्रमणम् ॥ ३८३॥
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383. When a person turns his Self away from his previous karmas good or bad and of multifarious kinds, then that Self is certainly the niscaya pratikramana, real repentance,
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