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spiritual natures. When these latter four classes are removed, then the qualities natural to the soul which come out are (1) blissfulness, (2) continuous life, unbroken by death and birth, (3) life as a pure soul all the time, ani (4) life in circumstances neither high nor low, i'u, equality of status.
CAUSES
of the generation of the foreign energies which are in us.
The characteristics which a person has at the present time are the result of forces generated in the past. The person attracts (asrava) to himself and assimilates (bandha) that finest material which is the substance of these foreign energies, by reason of certain impellent forces which are already in him. But these impellent forces are only the instrumental cause of the generation of the above named energies (karmas). We ourselves are the substantial cause of their generation.
If the attitude of mind is one of protest or aloofness from these impellent forces, then fresh energy is not generated.
There are four classes* of these impellent forces, causes, or means whereby we generate the energies above mentioned. These four classes are:
(1) Delusion (mithyatva).
(2) Lack of self-control, laxity of thought, or of sense activity. Indulgence of the senses stops consciousness (avirati).
(3) Passions: (kashaya). An unclean moral nature. * (Cf. Tattvarthadhigama Sutra, VIII. 1).
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