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Addressing One's True Self English Adaptation of Acārya Akalanka's Svarūpasambodhana
Manish MODI
I bow to that supreme soul Who is indestructible and embodies knowledge He is free from and tied to (respectively)
Karmas and consciousness. 1
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The soul embodies consciousness, bearing cause and effect in an orderly manner.
It may or may not be perceived, is without beginning or end, And constantly undergoes creation and destruction,
Without losing its essence. 2
The soul has attributes such as provability,
And is non-sentient or sentient,
Depending on the context. 3
Knowledge is an attribute of the soul, Distinct from as well as one with the soul,
Depending on the context. 4
The soul takes the size of the body it occupies,
So it does not touch all substances. It is not purely the nature of knowledge,
Nor is it always omnipresent. 5
The soul is one as well as many. Many, because it has several attributes like knowledge.
One, because it has consciousness. 6
The true nature of the soul is neither Completely describable nor completely indescribable.
It may be described by its own attributes. But cannot be described by others' attributes. 7
