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

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________________ ( 52 ) 14. Purity of Soul is to be meditated upon by those who perceive the Real. The practical is as a vessel leading the aspirant to the Real. 15. The seeing of the Real raises the aspirant from all the practical viewpoints, and is brought about by Right Belief. 16. The Seer perceives the Purity of Soul, never sallied by any Karmic matter, always its Pure Self in all the vicis. situdes of the the body's experiences, moved by the will of its owner. 17. He who knows the Soul to be Pure knows the secret of the Doctrine as presented in the Scriptures. 18. The Knowledge of the soul lies in Right Belief, Right Knowledge, and Right Conduct, Renunciation of all Karmic Inflow, and in adopting Soul-Contemplation. 19. Again the Acharya stresses the importance of Right Belief, Right Knowledge, and Right conduct, in the practical viewpoint as a means to Soul Realisation. 20-21. As the highest in the land, the King is counted for favours, so the Soul, the Highest Reality must be counted. It alone is capable of presenting to the aspirant, His purified Soul-His Real Self, 22. The Pure Soul is beyond all Karmic matter. etc. 23. In realising the Pure Soul one is freed from bondage. In non-realisation the bondage remains, 24. The soul, by producing thought-activity is the doer of that same thought-activity. This is from the Real standpoint. When the thought activity results in bodily actions, the Soul, from the practical aspect, is said to be the doer of material Karmas.

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