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Since eternity the Jiva has been kept in pitch darkness by the karmika cross-bars and so it can discern the material body and its organs alone, but towards the seed cause, the eternal self, the victim of illusions, the ignorant jiva is absolutely blind. Being intoxicated by the worldly temptations and enticements it loses its innermost potentiality to discriminate between the self and body, the former being conscious, formless, knowing and the latter material, unsentient, concrete and unknowing. The jiva, loaded with deteriorating karma-effects and having had a compounding affinity with the unconscious material body misconcieves that body itself is self and takes the ups and downs in and over the body of his own and the round-up-rebirths and the honour and dishonour etc. unknowingly and it imposes upon his self Again the jiva dips itself into the sensual activities and ruins its ultimate aim, for which it is an ought on its part, that it has to strive very hard. Being itself under the dominance of sensuality it is itself the cause own potentiality and cheats
of blunting its and defrauds itself
