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root cause of these forms or states and is the highest goal where the Jiva has to reach and rest. Knowing for ever is the natural, self-existent, self proved feature of the soul.
That the Bahiratma which misconceives the material things and biological pieces to be self itself; love, hatred etc, Kashayas to be his original nature, and his own nature encircled by vices, virtues etc. to be helping and enhancing is an ignorance affected by illusions and deceptive views. Antaratma is evolved one step more than the Bahiratma It realizes the immediate nature of the soul, has the first hand experience of it, has achieved the ability to recognize the eternal, pure, spiritnal nature of soul and takes bodily sense organs etc. to be alien and contradictory to soul and the passion, love, hatred etc. disappear. Then he comes into such a mental condition as it cannot mistake the Kashayas to be his nature.
He who cannot mistake the Kashayas to be
