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Summary of Paramatma Prakash
A man of impure manifestation of consciousness has no self-control, and his mind is not pure. Pure manifestation of consciousness is the best, because it is attended by self-control, character, righteousness, Faith, Knowledge and the destruction of Karman. Pure manifestation of consciousness is the Dharma which supports the beings falling in the miseries of four grades of existence. Pure manifestation of consciousness is the unique path leading to liberation: one that goes astray can never be liberated. One may go anywhere and do whatever he likes; but liberation can never be attained unless the mind is pure. Auspicious manifestation of consciousness leads to piety, the inauspicious one to impiety, and the pure one, which is free from both, is immune from Karman. (66-71)
Dana (i.e., donation, or giving gifts to proper persons, etc.) brings pleasures, austerities bring the status of Indra, but knowledge brings that state of existence which is free from birth and death. To know one's self is to get released, otherwise without this knowledge one has to wander in Samsara. Without this knowledge nobody has attained liberation: by churning water the hands would not be greasy. That knowledge, which is not self-knowledge, is of no avail; and even austerities, which are not conducive to self-knowledge, are simply painful. In the presence of self-knowledge there is no scope for attachment (raga). darkness cannot spread before the rays of sun. For men of knowledge, there is no other object of attachment than the self; so when, they realize this reality, their mind finds no pleasure in objects of senses. Their mind cannot be concentrated on any other object than the self: he who knows emerald (marakata) attaches no value to a piece of glass. (7278)
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When experiencing the fruits of his Karmas, he who entertains, through infatuation (or delusion), auspicious or inauspicious attitude, incurs Karmas again; and if he has no attachment or infatuation the fresh Karman is not incurred and the old stock is exhausted. Though the highest reality is being studied, even a particle of attachment proves a hindrance. If the self is not realized, study of scriptures and the practice of penances
