ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [244]
Gātha 243
Mistaking the self (the soul) for the body (the others) and the body (the others) for the self (the soul), this soul has been wandering in the world. ‘Certainly, I am not others, I am not the body, etc.; I am only I. And, the others (the body) are others only; others are not I.’ When this true discernment dawns on the soul, it gets rid of wandering in the world.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Samādhitaṅtram:
As long as the body, the speech, and the mind are perceived to be the soul there is whirling around in the cycle of births and deaths – saṃsāra – and when one practices to perceive these three to be different from the soul, liberation is achieved.
Cf. ‘Saṁvara [part 4120]’ gātha 62 https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/3427249010666672.