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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Atman and Mokşa
His experiences are external to him. They do not touch his innermost tranquil Atman. Though he does certain activities they do not stick to his soul. He remains aloof from the influences of the Prakṛti or adjuncts just as a drop of water remains aloof and unmixed on a lotus-leaf. He completely becomes free from his ego and nothing sticks to his intellect; though he does actions they do not affect him; he still remains as a non-doer of them.' He cannot be contaminated by the experiences of the world like laughter, etc..... due to the total absence of his identification with the adhyāsa or superimposed adjuncts. He enjoys unfailingly his inner calm and poise looking upon the world and even his own body only as illusory things. To the Jivanmukta the world exists only as a chimera, a non-entity, a dream, a snake in a rope, silver in a shell, mirage in a desert. The external world is only an appearance to him and so he shares no joys and no griefs of the world. He is not elated by success nor dejected by failures; he is neither happy nor unhappy; he is neither good nor bad, for him there are no desires, no passions, no fear, no anger, no joy, no grief, no envy, no love, and no hatred. He looks upon everything with his transcendent equanimity, and all the worldly experiences of whatever magnitude, count equal in his eyes. He is never ruffled from his eternal and everlasting equipoise. He is steady and permanently fixed in his own nature (afera). As his mind is
1 Ibid. p. 13.
2 Ibid. p. 12.
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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