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51. In the life of that person who, having renounced attach
ment to things, reflects on the three-fold means of detachment from mundane existence, renunciation occurs. This has been proclaimed by the Arahantas (embodied
spiritually perfect personalities). 52. He who turns his back upon the alluring and likeable
pleasures which have been obtained (by him) and (also) abandons the pleasures at his own disposal, is really a renunciatory. It is said so.
53. (Transcendentally), I am for certain the highest and the
pure (self). Again, I am everlastingly free from material qualities and also I am possessed of intuition and knowledge. Apart from the self, even the slightest any other infinitesimal quantity of thing. does not belong to
me.. 54. We, to whom nothing belongs, live and reside happily.
(This proclamation is similar to that of king, Janaka who said), “In Mithila which is being burnt, nothing which is mine is being put to flame” (That is the reason we live and reside happily).
55. Just as the lotus which is born of water is not polluted by
water, so also there is the person who has not been contaminated by sense-desires, we call him the realiser of the highest'self.
56. In whose life there is no attachment, by him suffering
has been extirpated; in whose life there is no desire, by him attachment has been uprooted; in whose life there is
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