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avastha is a very gross and tangible thing. Anything that can be experienced through the five senses is avastha, and paryaya is something that can be understood through Gnan.
All things have avastha (situations). Take this fan for example. By nature (swabhav) it is a fan, and at the moment its avastha is to turn, then will come its avastha, to stop. Avastha is temporary, and the fundamental form (swaroop) is an elemental form (tattva swaroop), which is eternal.
Every situation (avastha) only comes forth to free you. Whatever the situation; good or bad, painful (ashata vedaniya) or pleasant (shata vedaniya), it comes to liberate you. What does the situation (avastha) tell you? “Free yourself!" If You maintain Your awakened applied awareness (upayog) in that situation (avastha), then You will clearly be free. When that stain comes along, won't it be you who has to wash it off?
