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Bhāsyam Sutra 4
The person in whose life non-possessiveness has been perfected realizes the self. The idea is the sensual objects like sound etc. are material entities, while the nature of the self is spiritual. There are persons who have properly understood the nature of the sensual objects. In other worlds, through their intuitive comprehension, those objects are known to them as distinct from consciousness. They also know them (objets) as conditions of bondage of pleasure and pain. Those objects are known by him through comprehension qua knowledge and comprehension qua abandonment. Person of such comprehension realizes the self, the knowledge, the scripture, the doctrine and the discipline.
The present Sūtra propounds the principle of discrimination between the spiritual and the physical. The infatuation and temptation for possession originate due to the identification of the spiritual and the physical. Non-possessiveness matures on the experience of the discrimination between the two. On the maturation of such discrimination, the soul realizes itself. His knowledge is released from attachment to the sensual objects In other words, the knowledge is freed from any kind of grasping. And therefore, it is only in such state that the soul attains perfect knowledge, 'Scripture' means the sacred lore which deals with the release from attachment and hatred. The soul attains the knowledge of the scriptures when the basic attachment to the physical world is destroyed. The essential character of the doctrine is the sense of equality. Such person remains evenly disposed to the covetable and the uncovetable sensual objects, and is thus established in the doctrine. 'Discipline' means right conduct, truthfulness and austerities. The aspirant is firmly established in them and so is designated as the attainer of the discipline. 3.5 pannāņehim pariyāņai loyam, munīti vacce, dhammaviutti amjū
The person who comprehends the world by means of his wisdom is called monk. He is the knower of the
nature of things and is straightforward. Bhagyam Sutra 5
One who comprehends the world through his discriminative wisdom is called a monk (a knower). He is conversant with the nature of things and is uprigtht. 'Nature of things' means nature of all substances. This character of the monk is indicative of his practice of analytic meditation. The person who analytically meditates on the nature of things
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