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tions as ignorance, delusion, insensibility, attachment, illusion, desire, false hope and forgetfulness etc. It is the source of passions and emotions. Its predominance obstructs the right path of conduct by interfering with the process of belief, reasoning and discrimination. People under its strong influence and power do acts which keep them away long from the unfoldment of their true spiritual nature-and thus they are doomed tɔ inevitable births and deaths in this world (Sansar) and also to consequent miseries and troubles. The building of ærial castles without their substance and and the consequent appearance of multiplying forms owes their origin to delusion (Moha ). The objects of our long cherished hopes and desires like charming pills with a coating of sweets but full of deadly poison within, appear under the influence of deluson as true and substantial, but they vanish like flashes of lightning; so the aspirant after salvation (Moksha) should direct all his efforts towards the acquisition of right knowledge. It is possible only by the elimination of attachment and repulsion, the rootcauses of the transmigratory condition of the Soul. The real unfoldment of the spiritual nature then begins to dawn. When Moha is entirely destroyed the true and perfect knowledge hitherto veiled under the Karmic dirt becomes manifest in effulgence-the true object and aim of all religions and morality.
સર્વ દોષાનુ` મૂળ મેહુ——
“ દરેક પ્રકારના દોષો મેાહથી જન્મ પામે છે. માહના નાશ થયેથી કાઇ દોષતા પ્રચાર રહેતા નથી. અધ્યાત્મશાસ્ત્રનું રહસ્ય બીજું કંઇ વધુ
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