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is an attachment. Where there is attachment, there is no Moksa. But Brothers! We say - so long as there is the body, there cannot be Moksa. Only if you relinquish the body, will there be Moksa. Then why do you saunter about with this body? For attachment is the impediment to Moksa. Then be it of the body, or of the cloth or of any other thing. Brothers! There is no limit to argument and counter argument! It would suffice if we understand that Moksa is of the Soul and not of body, cloth or dress.
The Matarthi jiva does not wait to think thus far. He is obsessed with his own obstinate ideas. He believes - what I say is the truth. Then where does he get the patience to hear the truth from others?
How such a mithyatvi jiva is, and what his beliefs are, has been told by Banarsidasji in his "Natak Samaysar” -
धरम न जानत बखानत भरम रूप, ठौर ठौर ठानत लराइ पच्छपातकी! भूल्यौ अभिमान मैं न पाउ धरै धरनी मैं हिरदैमैं करनी विचारै उतपातकी ।।
फिर डांवाडोल सौ करम के कलोलिनिमैं,
है रही अवस्थासु बधूले कैसे पातकी। जाकी छाती ताती कारी कुटिल कुवाती भारी
एसौ ब्रह्मघाती है मिथ्याती महापातकी ॥ He does not know the true form of the Dharma and believing his quandary to be Dharma, he praises it. Wherever he goes, he takes a partisan view of his own faith and eulogises it. Unbridled in his pride, he hardly walks on the earth. He indulges in destructive activity. The state of such a matarthi is like a boat that is tilting precariously in a river. How can such a sinful person receive the good counsel? That mithyatvi, the destroyer of his own true inner form, who is full of venom and pernicious illogical ideas, is a great sinner.
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