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and interest in the five sensual activities and pleasures. His love of body goes on decreasing. sexual tendency tends to disappear, silence and speechlessness arise as a natural outcome, and in the ultimate essential bliss of immediate realization of soul his total personality gets dissolved by tumbling away all the Kashayas.
Only the self knower can be the conque or and restrainer. One who has not realized the soul and cannot know the essence of it is not called as an adorer and devotee of Jain religion and cannot be his life-way valued and admitted as right faith, right knowledge, right conduct. So the Jain Acharyas, taking into accouut the human psy. chology and following the logical mechanism advised and given directions first to abandon Baniratma and then to reach the Antaratma stage wich can be attained by subduing sensual power alone that very often and very easily blunts and kills the pull, and the ursge dashing from inside in our hearts and endeavouring to come to surface that naturally takes us from temporal to eternal,
