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25 by the liquor of delusion, undergoes indescribable anguish and pain. The beginningless nescience is the main cause of soul's unhealthy status and impure dispositions resulting in the four-fold animate feelings of appetite, fear, coition and attachment, These animate feelings weaken the power of the soul like high fever to a sick person. First Requisite :
The first requisite for an aspirant is to understand the correct position of the self. “Not even an atom of alien objects is related to me as mine. I am non-corporeal. Perception and knowledge are my inherent attributes. The empirical ego possesses mortal coil, but from the realistic point of view I am alone; I am single." The soul and body are mingled like milk and water. Each exists distinct from the other. The human body is a bundle of flesh, blood, pus, excreta and is defiled by bones, fat and the like and has nine outlets through which filthy matter flows. Therefore the wise live in the world with a detached mind like a lotus in a lake. The detached mental attitude implanted into actual practice helps the Self in burning the Karmic fuel by the conflagration of supreme concentration.
The advanced ascetic always reflects : “In this universe I am alone, nothing is mine". He chastises bis passions, controls his senses and mind. He possesses the treasure of austerity, cleanses his soul by a dip into the ocean of virtues. Faculty of discrimination, power of meditation, concentration,
