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हेयोपादेयतत्त्वस्य स्थितिं विज्ञाय हेयतः । निरालम्बो भवान्यस्मादुपेये सावलम्बनः ।।१९।।
heyopadeyatattvasya sthitim vijñāya heyataḥ | nirālambo bhavanyasmād upeye savalambanaḥ ||19||
Having properly known the nature of the things that deserve to be abandoned as also of the things that deserve to be acquired, abandon all the foreign things foreign to or harmful to the pure soul - which deserve to be abandoned and acquire those things which deserve to be acquired.1
1. Jaina thinkers recognise seven reals (tattva). They are: jīva soul, ajīva insentient element, asrava inflow of material karmic particles in soul, bandha bondage of material karmic particles with soul, samvara stoppage of the inflow of material karmic particles in soul, nirjarā partial dissociation of material karmic particles from soul, and mokṣa absolute and total dissociation of material karmic particles from soul. One desirous of liberation should know all the seven reals, and should have faith in the existence of all of them. But he should regard ajīva, āsrava and bandha as heya; they deserve to be abandoned. On the other hand, he should consider the remaining four to be upadeya; they deserve to be acquired.
स्वं परं चेति वस्तु त्वं वस्तुरूपेण भावय । उपेक्षाभावनोत्कर्षपर्यन्ते शिवमाप्नुहि ।। २० ।।
svam param ceti vastu tvam vasturūpeṇa bhāvaya | upekṣābhāvanotkarṣaparyante sivam apnuhi ||20||
You reflect over your own things and other's things as mere things only [without distorting the former with the feeling of mineness, attachment or love and the latter with the feeling of not-mineness, aversion or hatred.]1 When you reach the highest point of the feeling of neutrality or indifference, [that is, when you are not swayed even slightly by attachment or aversion,] you will attain the final Beatitude.
1. The fact nobody can deny is that whenever an ordinary person cognises an external object his cognition is always associated with the rise of the feeling of like or dislike, attachment or aversion, love or hatred, attraction or repulsion towards the object. So
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