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कसाय-जओ
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Though men see that this world [Sansara] is full of miseries such as death, old age, diseases and other calamities, they are disgusted with it on account of intense delusion.
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The wise say that ignorance of Self is the only source of all miseries. The pain arising from this ignorance is destroyed when this ignorance is destroyed, otherwise it is not destroyed even by severe austerities.
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The subjugation of the soul by passions and senses, is its worldly existence [Sansara]; and the victory of the soul over them, is its liberation: Anger, etc. are denominated Kashayas, and are said to be rain nourishing the tree in the form of Sansara.
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Anger is the source of enmity, cause of affliction, a bolt--like impediment to quietude and a way leading to degradation. When it arises, it like fire first burns its own abode; and it may or may not burn other objects
