Matharavritti 69
English (machine translation) 69
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69.1
Here an objection is raised: 'One in whom knowledge has arisen, performing seedless action indifferent to results, does not initiate a [future] body, while exhausting that which has begun its fruition, which produces rebirth—according to "action is not destroyed without being experienced" and "what is done must inevitably be experienced"—and, in the case of actions whose fruition has not begun, turning them to ashes by means of avoidance, according to "just as a kindled fire [turns] firewood [to ashes]". Thus, when actions have been destroyed, even when knowledge has arisen, when does the wise one attain liberation?' To this it is replied:
69.2
When dissolution of the body is attained, and through having fulfilled its purpose primordial matter has ceased, / he attains isolation, both absolute and final.
69.3
Therefore, when that is so, upon the breakup of the body—meaning when destruction of the body has occurred, has arrived; 'because its purpose has been fulfilled'—and that purpose, twofold (consisting of sound, etc.), was explained before; meaning having brought about the fulfillment of the purpose of that [spirit]; 'upon the cessation of primordial matter'—when there is an exhaustion of previously accumulated virtue and vice, then the body breaks up. And when that body is broken up, by the previously explained knowledge, the body's cause called primordial matter, consisting of unparticularized [subtle elements], made of the subtle elements, produced at the beginning of creation—that ceases. In this body, that which belongs to earth enters the earth. Likewise the other enters the others. In this way the gross body breaks up fivefold. And primordial matter, having fulfilled its purpose, does not initiate a second, different body again for the wise one. Thus, this wise one, when that body has broken up, 'attains isolation that is both absolute and final.' 'Absolute' because of necessity; 'final' because there is no return—meaning in every way; but not like medicine and the like, which is a temporary cessation of illness; nor does it recur when the illness has ceased: thus is the twofold example of absolute and final. Thus, through the absence, cessation, and non-arising of the threefold torment, both absolute and final, there is isolation, meaning liberation. He attains that.