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कषायैः रञ्जितं चेतः तत्त्वं नैवावगाहते। नीलीरक्तेऽम्बरे रागो दुराधेयो हि कौकुमः ।। १७ ।।
kaṣayaiḥ ranjitam cetaḥ tattvam naivävagahate | nilirakte 'mbare rago durädheyo hi kaunkumaḥ ||17||
Soul soiled with passions' can never grasp or realise the ultimate reality, viz. the pure nature of the soul, just as the cloth dyed with dark black colour accepts saffron-red colour with great difficulty.
1. Jaina thinkers recognise four passions kasayas, viz. anger krodha, pride māna, deceitfulness maya and greed lobha. These four are covered by the two, viz attachment raga and aversion dvesa. Passions are the root-cause of bondage or transmigratory state samsara. Therefore it is said: kaşayamuktiḥ kila muktir eva. Freedom from passions is the real liberation.
ततस्त्वं दोषनिर्मुक्त्यै निर्मोहो भव सर्वतः । उदासीनत्वमाश्रित्य तत्त्वचिन्तापरो भव । । १८ ।।
tatas tvam doșanirmuktyai nirmoho bhava sarvataḥ | udasinatvam aśritya tattvacintaparo bhava ||18||
So to be free from all the defilements [like attachment, aversion, anger etc.] you become completely free from delusion or infatuation,' and taking recourse to indifference you get fully engrossed in the deep reflection on the pure soul which is the ultimate real.
1. Blinded by delusion (moha) the soul loses its sense of discrimination, it cannot differentiate the good from the evil, the auspicious acts from the inauspicious acts. It is like a man who is under the influence of liquor. The drunken man loses all his power of understanding the situation and as a result becomes infatuated and goes astray and does. such despising and disgusting acts as he would not have done if he were not infatuated by liquor. Similarly, a living being greatly infected with delusion is unable to understand. the reality as it is and under the sway of nescience and wrong notions gropes in the dark and in vain.
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