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I am the Soul brightness can be noticed; the moon looks hazier compared to the previous day. It even rises late. As the days pass, the moon becomes paler and the darkness increases. On the new-moon day, there is total darkness.
In the bright phase, on the second day after new-moon, the moon is like a fine thread. It has no radiance. But as it grows, its brilliance also does. Even the moon on the eighth or tenth day of the bright phase radiates light. The brightness of the moon goes on increasing and on the full-moon night the moon is seen bright in its full splendour. A person with good eyes can even read in its light, work in it.
Similarly, when the jiva is in the dark-phase, the darkness of mithyatva – false belief - in the atma goes on increasing. Why! Sometimes there can be an increase or decrease, but it can never come into light. When the darshan-mohaniya karma wears thin, a little darkness is broken through, and when like the moon of the second day of the bright phase, the jiva steps on to the path of spiritual progress, it slowly turns brighter. But the jiva takes long to turn from the dark-phase to the bright-phase.
For instance, if today were to be the first day after full moon, and if we desire that the full-moon of the previous day should rise, it is impossible! No power can alter the set course. If today is the first day after full moon, then we have to wait for a whole month to see the full-moon again. Do what you may, it is impossible to make the full-moon rise whenever you desire. Even today's science, however advanced it may be and in spite of claiming to have landed on the moon, cannot do it. It happens only in its due course. Dark phase, it may well be. Yet it is in progress. So a month later there is bound to be a sighting of the full-moon.
In the same way, after the jiva enters the bright phase, its darshan-moha diminishes, and once it manages to step out of
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