D.: How can one become jitasangadoshah (free from the stain of association)?
M.: By (association with the wise). “Satsangatve nissangatvam, nissangatve nirmohatvam, nirmohatve nischalatatvam, nischalatatve jivanmuktih”
means sanga ( = association) with . Sat is only the Self. Since the Self is not now understood to be Sat, the company of the sage who has thus understood it is sought. That is Sat-sanga. Introversion results. Then Sat is revealed. For whom is association? For whom is dosha?
D.: To the Self.
M.: No. The Self is pure and unaffected. The impurities affect only the ego.
D.: Can the soul remain without the body?
M.: It will be so a short time hence—in deep slumber. The Self is bodiless. Even now it is so.
D.: Can a remain in the midst of ?
M.: So long as one thinks that he is a , he is not one. So long as one does not think of , he is not a samsāri; on the other hand he is a sanyāsi.