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CHAPTER XXVII.
SAMVARA OR STOPPAGE. Samvara clasified into Physical and Psychical :With Samvar begins the practical morality-Swaraj the ultimate End-Fifty seven kinds of Samvar-Five Samitis, three Guptis, Ten rules of Ascetisisn..Twelve Bhavanas, Twenty six Parishahas and Five Charitras.
From what precedes it is pretty clear that all our poverty and degradation, all our sorrows and afflictions are due to åsrava and bandha caused by subreption (mithyatva and the like). . Fresh asravas forge fresh links of bandhan of the soul which is constitutionally free and potentially divine. We have also seen elsewhere that in order to manifest this constitutional freedom and essential divinity of the soul, a jiva must shake off all karma-matter which being alien to its real nature works as a veil of ignorance to prevent the unfoldment of right vision into the verities of life and living leading to right-knowledge without which right conduct in the empirical life and thought ultimately crowning its efforts with a free and beatific
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