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with the purity of the soul and feels sorry that such a sense arises. Shrimad has stated (Vachanämrut # 819): "When the sense instincts become too powerful, the sensible person feels much grieved to notice the absence of his vigor and continually despises himself. Repeatedly looking at the self with the sense of despise and taking recourse to the words and conduct of the great entities, he generates internal vigor and drives back those instincts even by exerting much force. He does not sit at rest till then nor does he stay complacent merely by being sorry."
Thus a really knowledgeable person identifies any defiling instinct as an alien to his true nature and therefore would not indulge in attachment or aversion. Having developed true detachment for the worldly objects, he does not long for anything. The sense of craving or aversion becomes unbecoming to him. Those, who do not have such understanding at heart, are merely bare knowledgeable people. Despite their scriptural knowledge, they stay deluded about the right path and continue to drift within the sea of birth and death.
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