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I am the Soul
Here it is necessary to understand the rise of charitra. Normally, it is karmas which rise. Charitra is not a karma. Then how can it rise - uday? The meaning of uday is to appear. Just as in the morning in the eastern sky there occurs the suryodaya. We say everyday that surya uday has occurred. What does this mean? It is not as if for some reason a new sun has appeared. But that it was out of the reach of our sight, it had gone below and now it has come up. As it climbs in our eyes, it rises in the sky. How did it come? Its movement is constant. Therefore it has come up. In the same way it also sets. The Moon, stars and others also go through this rise and setting. That is to say, when they appeared after disappearing it was their uday (rise) and when they disappear after appearing it was their asta (setting).
Charitra is not the fruit of any rising karma. Therefore, our usage of the term uday of charitra has to be understood in terms of the usage for the sunrise - that the charitra, which was hitherto unseen, has now appeared. But while for the sun to rise, its own movement is responsible, in the case of the rise of charitra, the purity of the state of atma is responsible. The increasing purity of the true form of the atma makes charitra appear. All mithya feelings disappear.
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Even the mithya feelings in the form of nokashayas, ratiarati, joy-sorrow, fear, jugupsa also begin to decline. A samakiti, a jiva with charitra, does not have as many gama-anagama feelings in the passions of the senses as there are in a jiva attached to the material world. Of course, since his nokashayas are not yet fully destroyed, there still are notions of choices in his life. Certain things are liked, while certain others are disliked, yet there is no yearning for them, there is no insistence. Momentary feelings do appear, yet the jiva immediately turns away from them; it does not remain wallowing in them. Same applies to the feelings of joy and sorrow, fear and jugupsa - upon motivation they affect for a moment, but do not last long.
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