Book Title: Jain Path or Path of Conqueror
Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Mathew Mckay
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Samiti Agra

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________________ ( 25 ) 1.11 193.. And realising, the pure soul, the soul, becomes the puré soul: itself: But realising the impure soul (it). becomes impure soul itself. 194.195. The Knower, having checked the soul by itself, from both the vibratory activities of merit and de. merit and being absorbed in: (pure) perception and knowledge, by giving up, desire for other (substances apart from the soul), and having renounced all attachment (to worldly possessions) contemplates upon the (pure) soul by the soul, and never (contemplates upon ) Karmas and quasi-karmas, (he) meditátes upon its oneness. .. 196. Contemplating upon the pure soul, full of (right), perception and knowledge, and not attentive to the non-self, such (soul) liberated from Karmas, very soon realizes the soul itself. 197. As by hearing a lecture one comes to know what he has not seen, (one) knows an unseen form as if by visualisation, so is the soul described and understood as it' (it was) seen and known. 198. At the present time what saint (is there who) knowing the (reality of) substances can say "this is its form" as if he had an ocular vision of what can only be known by inferential knowledge. 199-200-201. The causes of (attachment etc.) are said by the all.Seeing to be the : manifest operation of (Karmas). They are (wrong) belief, wrong knowledge, vowlessness, and the soul's vibratory activity. By the non-existence of these causes certainly results the checking of thought-inflow in a knowing'soul. In the absence of thought-inflow, results the checking (of the inflow, of Karmic matter also, and by the nonexistence of Karmic inflow is caused the checking of Quasi

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