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અધ્યાત્મતત્ત્વાલક,
[ Flooja vision is as weak as that of a child or a man of distracted faculties or a decrepit old man. It takes its colour more from acquired habits, tastes, inclinations, feelings and family usages, than from a deliberate and well-reasoned regard to the good. It bars the right operation of mental and intellectual faculties as to dive deep into metaphysics and to fathom the underlying dogmas and principles to get unravelled the most inscrutable laws of nature and divinity. It thus keeps closed the channels and avenues that would lead to right perception, right knowledge and right conduct, the cardinal factors in the evolution of human life.
Thus infected by corruption, selfish motives, etc., from inside and poisoned by ruinous traditional influences externally he strays away from the path of the highest spiritual truth which ought to be his final goal. From eternity he is subject to the cycle of revolutions involved as he is in wrong temptations, selfish desires and motives daily multiplying. This is due to the one-sided, deluded and dogmatic view of the whole without differentiation. So wise and highly evolved sages have devised a system with definite external and internal differentiations and have placed us in a position to make general and individual progress by the effacement of the Karmic dross. Thus vision is divided for the sake of convenience into eight heads or stages, each with progressively higher evolution than the preceding one. Even the first stage of Yoga-vision requires highly superior evolution to that of the undifferentiated stage. The path
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