He becomes liberated who acquires neither merit nor demerit, who casts off the merits and demerits accumulated in pristine births, who wastes the elements of his body for attaining to a tranquillised soul, and who gets over all pairs of opposites.
नैव धर्मी न चाधर्मी पूर्वोपचितहायकः। धातुक्षयप्रशान्तात्मा निर्द्वन्द्वः स विमुच्यते॥