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COMMENTARY Others maintain that the concentration of mind on the idca of bondage is itself the cause of möksha or spiritual liberation This view also is wrong By mere concentration of thought on bondage one cannot obtain liberation, just as concentrated attention on the shackles cannot get freedom for the person in chains
What then is the cause of liberation? The answer is given below
जह बधे छित्तूण व बधणबद्धो उ पावइ विमोक्ख ।
तह बधे छित्तूण य जीवो सपावइ विमोक्ख ॥२९२॥ Jaha bandhe chhittunaya vandhanavaddho vu pāvayı vimokhham 'Caha bandhe chhittunaya jivo sampāvayı vimokkham (292)
यथा बन्धछित्त्वा च बन्धनबद्धस्तु प्राप्नोति विमोक्षम् ।
तथा बन्धछित्त्वा च जीव सप्राओति विमोक्षम् ॥२९२॥ 292 As one bound in shackles gets release only on breaking the shackles, so also the Self attains emancipation only by breaking (karmic) bondage How is this to be effected? The method is shown below
बधाण च सहाव वियाणिओ अप्पणो सहाव च ।
बधेसु जो विरज्जदि सो कम्मविमोक्खण कुणइ ॥२९३॥ Bandhanam cha sahavam viyānivo appano sahavam cha Bandhesu jovi rajjadi so kammavimokkhanam kunayı (293)
बन्धाना च स्वभाव विज्ञायात्मन स्वभाव च।
बन्धेषु यो विरज्यते स कर्मविमोक्षण करोति ॥२९३॥ 293 Whoever with a clear knowledge of the nature of karmic bondage as well as the nature of the Self, does not get attracted by bondage-that person obtains liberation from karmas
COMMENTARY Thus the direct cause of liberation is determined to be the separation of the Self and the bondage from each other
जीवो बधोय तहा, छिज्जति सलक्खणेहि णियएहि । पण्णाछेदणएण उ छिण्णा णाणत्तमावण्णा ॥२९४॥
