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All else can be called illusion ...
The devoted pursuit of the three gems gradually diminishes the feeling of desire. With diminishing desire, the purity of atma increases.
All the impurity, blemish that is there in the atma is due to moha - desire. Moha is in two ways - faith in the contradiction of atma and possessiveness in the feelings of attachment etc. The atma is pure only when both these feelings are removed. Moha is uppermost among all passions of the atma. Hence it has been compared with a King.
Just like a King who looks after his subjects, develops and protects his kingdom, Moha too nourishes various types of mithyatva, passions – kashayas like anger etc., nokashayas - sub-passions like rati etc., and the various maladies that arise out of them. It keeps on developing them. It extends a protection to them so that they do not lose their way from the atma. It is so capable in itself that it manages to protect all the others. It does not need anybody to protect itself. Not just that, this one feeling alone is capable of erecting an entire tradition of infinite sansar. The reason why the jiva has not attained the siddha state until now is this moha. The Samyak state will not awaken within the atma unless the state of moha is removed.
Without Samyak state, there cannot be the veetaraaga state and without the veetaraaga state there cannot be the siddha state. Therefore, the jiva has to awaken the transition of Samyak dasha - state within the atma. With the awakening of the dasha the disha - direction changes. Those who have an awakened dasha are bound to change their direction. It does not take long then.
Brothers! You are driving a car. You are following a straight direction. When the turn arrives and you want to change the direction, you do so with a minimum effort. What is required is
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