The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 156
vikārapraktibhyo hi kṣetrajña muktamapyaham |
manye prasavadharmāṇa vījadharmāṇameva ca || 12.70
70. ‘For I consider that the embodied soul, though freed from the evolutes and the
evolvents, is still subject to the condition of birth and has the condition of a seed. 1
viśuddho yadyapi hyātmā nirmukta iti kalpyate | 2 (ab = 12.71ab)
atyatastatparityāgaḥ satyātmani na vidyate || 12.71 (cd = 12.73cd)
71. ‘Even though the pure soul is declared to be "liberated," yet as long as the soul
remains there can be no absolute abandonment of it.
hitvā hitvā trayamida viśeṣastūpalabhyate |
ātmanastu sthitiryatra tatra sūkṣmamida trayam || 12. 72 (12.74)
72. ‘If we abandon successively all this triad, yet "distinction" is still perceived; as long
as the soul itself continues, there this triad continues in a subtil form.
sūkṣmatvāccaiva doṣāṇāmavyāpārācca cetasaḥ |
dīrghatvādāyuṣaścaiva mokṣastu parikalpyate || 12.73 (12.75)
73. ‘It is held (by some) that this is liberation, because the "imperfections" are so
attenuated, and the thinking power is inactive, and the term of existence is so
prolonged;
ahakāraparityāgo yaścaiṣa parikalpyate |
satyātmani parityāgo nāhakārasya vidyate || 12.74 (12.76)
74. ‘But as for this supposed abandonment of the principle of egoism, — as long as the
soul continues, there is no real abandonment of egoism.
1 This is expanded in the Chinese, vv. 984, 985.
2 [Ed: Johnson has 2 extra verses inserted at this point, so that the 3 verses together read:
viśuddho yadyapi hyātmā nirmukta iti kalpyate | bhūyaḥ pratyayasadbhāvādamuktaḥ sa
bhaviṣyati || 12.71 tubhūmyabuvirahādyathā bīja na rohati | rohati
pratyayaistaistaistadvatso ’pi mato mama || 12.72 yatkarmājñānatṣṇānā tyāgānmokṣaśca
kalpyate | atyantastatparityāgaḥ satyātmani na vidyate || 12.73.
He gives the translation of the 3 verses like this: 71. ‘For though the soul by reason of its purity
is conceived as being liberated, it will again become bound from the continued existence of
the causal conditions. 72. Just as a seed does not grow from want of the proper season, soil or
water, but does grow when these causal condtions are present, such I deem to be the case of
the soul. 73. And as for the statement that liberation is deemed to come by severence from the
power of the act, from ignorance and from desire, there is no complete severence from them
so long as the soul persists’. The rest of the verse numbers in this chapter in Johnson’s edition
are affected by this, and are placed in brackets in this edition henceforth.]