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SANATANA JAINA,
in erery respect and put a limit to are still in my feet and ai ngain every power in me. In my pure-sell, engaged. My condition, at the time, I am & perfect whole, apart from resembles that of a fame which stret everything, dependent on nothing et- ches upward but is fastened to the ernal, immortal, invisible, invincible, wick. Or more properly, I am like above pleasure or pain, hope or deg. piece of cork fastened to a rook at the pair, subject to no gravitation, no
bottom of an ocean Lut struggling to force, all powerful, all happy, seeing
come up. As the cork, when loosened all, knowing all. I have attributes, instantly floats up to tne surfac?, b:besides, too numerous to be enumerat.
ing helped to it by water, till stoped, but iny deceitful companion has
ed by the atmosphere above, so I, made me wear coloured spectacles
when liberated from everything which
surrounds me, be that gross or fine, and see things in quite a disguised
take my upward course aided by the and false light; so I have lost sight
Dharma Dravya (motion ) till stopped of all of them. I have not stopped here.
by the Adharma Dravya (stillness ). On the contrary I have gone so far,
I have to undergo a long process of that even if any one reminds me of
purging before I am so liberated. any of my attributes, I disown it. If
During this hard course of purification some one says, you are a knower of
I, for the first time, realise my true all things." I reply, you are & liar,''
self. Not only this. I also begin What I now take to be mine, are to read an inner and real meaning Anger. Pride, Delusion and Avarice. in everything else and reject the To pine for momentary worldly gains superficial and the unreal. I conquer and to do all sorts of nonsense I re- my enemy, at last, with the trident gard as my true function, to indulge of Right Faith, Right Knowledge, and in the pleasures of the sease and of and Right Conduct' and free myself the mind as my prime duty, to love from his imprisonment. I un, then, this person or that. thing as my only transferred, from this foreign land to care. All that belongs to matter, I my native place, ther; to reigo for call my own. In the material world ever, in Perfect Bliss, Peace and if any one is seen bewailing, for the Calmness." fact. That the coat which he has put S uch is the account which your soul on to save himself from cold, must be gives you of herself. You seem for suffering cold, is rebuked as a lunatic the time being carried away by her but my wise self has not escaped such discourse. You have her, cast an eye foolishness too. I have several times over your familiar physical world, got troubled, that the flesh and blood but as you are yet fresh from the that envelopes me is exposed to cli- spiritual world, where you have just matic hardships.
been, with impressions received there If, ever, I recover from the state of quite green in your memory, you look torpor and think of flying up to my upon it in the spirit in which a spectnatural abode, I find myself chained. ator observes a cynometographic scene, Though, I am, at intervals, left by gross helieving all the phenomena to be matter and am able to rise high up to- transient and ephemeral. By and by wards my home, yet I am dragged your senses overcome you, and you are down by the weight of my two fetter, once more the gross man that you the Taijas (Electric) and the Karman were. (made up of Karmas ) bodies, which
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