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same moment, the automatic (on their own) complete destruction (annihilation) of all karmic matter (Dravya Karmas) from the soul is called material liberation
(Dravya Moksha). Q. 122. What sort of fallacies are committed by
the perverted believers about these seven Fundamental principles (Tattvas) 1. Fallacy in respect of “ Jiva-Tattva”:
Consciousness is the eternal differentia (distinctive characteristic) of the soul, (but) the perverted believer does not know the same due to ignorance, instead he identifies the self with gross (material) body, and believes“I am body, I can do actions and functions of the body”.
Further he thinks “if the body is healthy, it is beneficial to me. The outward favourable and non-favourable environment makes me happy and unhappy, by affluence and paucity I become rich or poor, by getting this body weak or strong I become week or strong ; by gender I am male or female, by body I am ugly or beautiful and the physical (bodily) activities such as teaching, preaching (lecturing), eating and fasting etc., are my own activities, and so on. Thus, possessing such
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