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[ 49 424. Impure thought-activity, is always unconscious, and is not knowledge, say the Conquerors.
425. As it always knows, so the soul is certainly the Knower, the Enlightened. It should be known that knowledge is not scparate from the Knower
426. Knowledge itself is the Right Believer, the Self Restraint, the Scriptures, consisting of Angas and Purvas, Mcrit, Demerit, and Initiation to Ascetism. The wise men know this.
427. Soul is immaterial. It can never be Aharaka, taker of matcrial molecules. Ahara is really matter.
428. There is no such capacity, whatever, natural or acquired in the Soul, that it can grasp or give up the other substance,
429. Therefore, the pure conscious Soal neither grasps anything, no gives up anything of the Soul and the non-Soul substances.
430. The ignorant persons say that the adoption of the cxternal marks of ascetics, or of house-holders of many kinds, is the only way to Liberation.
431. The mark mcrcly is never the way to Liberation, because thc Arhats (Adorables) who have given up attachment to the body, and ignored the mark, have realized Right Belief and Knowledge, and Conduct.
432. The marks of the householder and of the ascetic, are never the path to Liberation ; Right Belief, Knowledge and Conduct (combined) are the path to Liberation. The Conquerors say so.
434. Fix the Soul in the path of Liberation. Realize and concentrate upon it. And therein always abide. Do not roam about in other substances. .
