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SAMAYASARA ( 186 PORTION) By Shri Hunda Kunda Acharya First Century, B. C.
1. Having bowed to all the Perfect souls who have attained a condition of existence indestructible, purified, unparalleled, I shall speak of this "gist of the soul", oh listeners, as spoken by the knowers of all scriptoral know
ledge.
2. Know the soul which is concentrated in right belief knowledge, and conduct, to be Self absorption. And know that which stands ia the condition determined by the operation of Karmic matter to b: non-self-absorption.
3. Absorbed in oneness. the soul is everywhere admirable in the Universe. The predication of bondage as being one with it, is censurable.
4. The discourse relating to sense enjoyments and Karmic bondage is heard and understood, and experienced by all the mundane souls. But realisation of absolute oneness with its own nature, free from attachment, is not easy of attainment.
5. I describe' that absolute oneness of the soul on the strength of my own self realisation. What I describe should be accepted after verification by your own experience. If I err, it should not be considered a deception.
6. But that knowing substance, (pure soul) does not become of perfect vows, or of any higher spiritual stage, nor of Imperfect vows, or of any lower spiritual stage. Thus say the pure, from the standpoint of pare soul. And indeed that which is known is even the same (as knower, i.e., itself), in self absorption.
