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ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [266]

    Alexander Zeugin
    By Alexander Zeugin

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    Gātha 265

     

    The soul – the possessor-of-quality (guṇavān) – is inseparable from the quality (guṇa). Hence, destruction of the quality (guṇa) would mean destruction of the possessor-of-quality (guṇavān). While the doctrines of the others have imagined liberation (of the soul) as absolute non-existence (śūnya), the Jaina Doctrine has expounded liberation as absolute absence of auspicious (śubha) and inauspicious (aśubha) dispositions due to attachment (rāga) and aversion (dveṣa) in the soul.

     

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