Pain and Ignorance on Superphysics

Pain

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¹ The complete cessation of pain [which is] of three kinds is the complete end of man.

² The effectuation of this [complete cessation of pain] is not [to be expected] by means of the visible [such as wealth, &c.]; for we see [on the loss of wealth, &c.,] the restoration [of the misery and evil,] after [its temporary] cessation.

Reality

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²⁵ [Possibly the Vedántí may remonstrate] ‘We are not asserters of any Six Categories, like the Vaiśeshikas and others.’

²⁶ Even although this be not compulsory [that the categories be six, or sixteen], there is no acceptance of the inconsistent; else we come to the level of children, and madmen, and the like.

Bondage

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Aph. 56.* Bondage arises from the error [of not discriminating between Nature and soul].2

Aph. 56.* The removal of it is to be effected by the necessary means, just like darkness.

Nature

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⁹⁶ The governorship [thereof, i.e., of Soul over Nature] is from [its] proximity thereto, [not from its resolving to act thereon]; as is the case with the gem, [the lodestone, in regard to iron].

The Soul

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¹³⁹ Soul is something else than the body, &c.

Aph. 140.* Because that which is combined [and is, therefore, discerptible,] is for the sake of some other, [not discerptible].

Aph. 141.* [And Soul is something else than the body, &c.]; because there is [in Soul,] the reverse of the three Qualities, &c.