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I am the Soul
583 Pratyakhyani anger, pride, avarice, greed. This is mild. Allows practice of vows etc. to some extent but prohibits the awakening of feelings of detachment.
Sanjwalana anger, pride, avarice, greed. This is milder. It does not allow the total Veetaraag state to occur.
There are 9 nokashayas. Those which are not kashayas but which trigger the kashayas -- joy, sorrow, rati, arati, fear, jugupsa, striveda, purshaveda and napunsakaveda. All nine names are self explanatory.
Thus with the rise of mohaniya karma, such feelings always prevail. We experience this day in and day out.
Now Srimadji tells us the means of destroying Mohaniya Karma.
कर्म मोहनीय भेद बे, दर्शन चारित्र नाम;
gut ata aratat, 3rych 3474 314 . . . . . 803 As mentioned earlier Mohaniya karma is of two types - Darshana mohaniya and Charitra Mohaniya. The perversion of the atma's virtue of shraddha - faith is mithyatva, that is Darshana mohaniya, and the perversion of the virtue of charitra - conduct, is attachment and aversion, that is Charitra Mohaniya.
If we were to consider every activity of our life, it would appear as if we were living only to nourish perversion. Behind every act of ours there is invariably attachment, aversion or mithyatva. In fact, we take great pleasure in indulging in these feelings, and not just that, we insist that what we are doing is the right thing happening.
Well, how can perversion be a good thing? It cannot. That is why there is this talk of demolishing it. And how? How it can be demolished has been told in the Shastras. Sages have said that perversion is endless in the atma. Even if you try to remove it one after the other, it continues to grow. Hence it should be
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