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life Again, attainment of the highest eternal blissful state is on account of pure auspicious activities. O Arhan, (the difference betwecn you and me is that), you are in the state of eternal bliss and I am here in this mundane life (which is full of pain and pleasure)
यन्नान्तर्ने बहिः स्थितं न च दिशि स्थूलं न सूक्ष्म पुमान् नैव स्त्री न नपुंसकं न गुरुतां प्राप्त न यल्लाघवम् । कर्मस्पर्शशरीरगन्धगणनाव्याहारवर्णोज्झितः
स्वच्छं ज्ञानहगेकमूर्ति तदहं ज्योतिः परं नापरम् ॥१९॥ 19. I am nothing else but that highest self-luminous Consciousness ( Lit.
light) which dwells neither inside nor outside, nor in any direction; (which is) neither gross nor subtle; neither male, nor female, nor neuter; neither heavy nor light; free from Karma, touch, body, smell counting, word and colour and embodiment of pure knowledge and darsana.18
एतेनैव चिदुन्नति क्षयकृता कार्य विना वैरिणा शश्वत्कर्म खलेन तिष्ठति कृतं नाथावयोरन्तरम् । एषोऽहं स च ते पुरः परिगतो दुष्टोऽत्र निःसार्यताम
सद्रक्षेतरनिग्रहो नयवतो धर्मः प्रभोरीदृशः ॥२०॥ 20. O Lord! the gulf between us is created by this enemy in the form of
mischievous karma, whicb, without any reason destroys the advance
ment of Spirit.18 This, I am and that karma both are here in the presence of you. Amongst us (between us), (please) throw out that malignant (karma), because, it is the duty of a king to protect virtuous and punish the wicked ones.
आधिव्याधिजरामृतिप्रभृतयः सम्बन्धिनो वर्मणः तद्भिन्नस्य ममात्मनो भगवत किं कर्तुमीशा जडाः । नानाकारविकारकारिण इमे साक्षान्नभोमण्डले
तिष्ठन्तोऽपि न कुर्वते जलमुचस्तत्र स्वरूपान्तरम् ॥२१॥ 21. The mental agony, disease, old age and death etc., are related to
the body. (Thus) what (harm) these inanimate things can do to my
supreme Soul, which is quite different from these things ?11 (They 15. This verse is very similar to the Upanişadic statement that •Ātman is neither male.
nor female nor neuter.'-Svetāsvatara Upanisad-V. 10. 16. The word 'cidunnatiksayakrta' is used in U and Jedition, instead of 'cidunnatim'.
The reading 'cidunnatim' is more appropriate here. 17. In these lines, the author indirectly attacks the materialists (who claim that Atman
is not different from the body) by saying that Ātman is quite different from the material body.
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