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transforms into the affected disposition. But when the jiva begins to move away from the material world, the natural disposition in the form of the self yearning for moksa, that has remained suppressed, becomes activated.
The jiva keeps on getting into the feelings of attachment and aversion in all the species that it visits - whether it becomes a human, a deva, a resident of hell or an animal. It has never retired from the thoughts of attachment etc.
Two cows are tied in a shed and you go to feed them green fodder - you give it to one cow first and it takes you a little longer to give it to the other. That other one gets anxious and restless. It begins to get angry with you. But when you give it the fodder it begins to express its love for you. These jivas and others in other species do have feelings of attachment and aversion. But as humans these feelings get heightened. Brothers! Do you know that the life form of humans is the only one where the three – good, evil or pure – feelings of a jiva can reach the climax? When a jiva begins to bind punya karmas while progressing in good feelings it goes on to be born as the Mahardwika Deva in the great Sarvarthasiddha Mahavimaana. Ifit continues to fill its bag with papa karma through evil feelings, it goes away to the seventh hell to suffer the extreme pain. And if the same jiva, breaks away from both good and evil feelings and begins to transform into pure thoughts, it eliminates all karma and attains moksa. Only a human is capable of attaining all these three climaxes.
That is why Srimadji says that good or evil is not your own natural disposition. Quite apart from these two, the natural disposition to attain moksa is your very own. Awaken this feeling! Brothers! Pure thought appears and progresses only with the development of the all-knowing, all-seeing natural disposition.
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