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29. You are neither merit nor sin por time either, nor the support of movement, the support of rest, nor a body (of matter)
You are, o soul, not one of these principles), except that which is of the nature of consciousness. 30. You are not falr, nor dark, you are not one single colour,
You are not bodily thio, nor fat 1 kaow this to be your owo characteristic
3). "I am (not) a great brahman nor & Vajsya, neither a kşatriya for the rest
I am not male, acuter, female" koow this to be your characteristic.
32 "I am a youth, an old man, a child--a brave, a divine pundit
a digambara, a buddhist, a svetambara" , don't imagine all this 33 Having seen aging and death of the body, have no fear, o soul.
consider that the Self is the unaging and undying
consider that the Self is unaging and undyingaupreme brahman, the brahman supemo 34. To the body belong both aging and death, to the body the various colours,
know it is to the body that diseases belong, to the body tho sexcs, o friend, 35. There is neither agiog or death, nor diseases, sexes, colours.
know the Self from the absoluto point of view: to the soul not a single one of the previous) designation(s) (will apply). 36. If you call Self the phenomenon relating to the karmans.
then you (will not reach the supreme sojourn, again you will wander to the sapsara, 37. Excepting the Solf which is made of knowledge, any other phenomenon is external,
leave that, o soul, and meditate upon your owo pure nature. 38. Devoid of colour, made of knowledge, he who roalises his own (excellont) nature,
peaceful, immaculate, that man 18 the (Blissful) siva, towards this (the Self) attachment is to be directed, 39. In the three worlds is seen the god Jina, (and) in the great Jina this trlad of worlds,
in the great Jina is seen the whole universe, no difference can be made.
