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The pursuit of the three-fold path brings forth all the vrttis lying within the soul. With the progress of the devoted practice, the natural vrttis gain in strength and the affected vrttis fade out.
The intention of devoted practice is to highlight the natural disposition. We get engrossed in the affected disposition mistaking it for the natural. We believe the activities, habits and mannerisms arising out of the three yogas to be the natural disposition. But that is not so, it is only an aberration of the natural disposition. It is an aberration caused by the mohaniya karma affixed on the valuable true inner form of the soul. Other karmas simply hide the strength of the soul, they do not cause aberrations. The mohaniya karma suppresses the atma's own natural disposition and creates a new aberration. The darshan mohaniya karma suppresses samyaktva and generates the feeling of mithyatva and the charitra mohaniya karma debilitates the strength of the natural conduct of the soul and generates attachment and aversion through passions like anger etc.,. These aberrations are to be found in all jivas big or small to a lesser or greater extent. And the entire life's activity is fuelled by these passions, and hence we have believed them to be the natural disposition.
The passions that we bring along at birth become apparent in our activity from childhood itself. Have you seen the anger in a six or eight month old baby? His mother alone knows of his anger. She keeps saying, “He is only six months, but look at his anger!" It the manifestation of the passions that affect the child from within. The child does not let anybody touch any of his or his mother's things. That shows his greed and desire. These are passions. It is not that carnal desire is the only passion. All behaviour that goes against the true natural disposition of the soul is passion. A human begins the life, begins the process of
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