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knowledge of car driving in the first place, secondly a licence and thirdly a control over the steering wheel. Once you have all these, then you can take the car in any direction, for any distance. Similarly, if the jiva has to be taken away from the state of attachment etc. to the veetaraag state, it can be done provided there is the knowledge of that path, the ability in the jiva and the restraint on the transitions. One who can awaken such a state is a jnani. Defining such a jnani, Srimadji says -
मोहभाव क्षय होय ज्यां, अथवा होय प्रशांत;
a chance girit am, arahat other pia .....838 Who should be called a jnani? Either, one whose feeling of moha is absolutely diminished, in other words - one whose moha in the forms of darshan mohaniya and charitra mohaniya is removed and who has attained an absolute veetaraag state, is a jnani. Or, one who is in a state where both these forms of moha have been more or less pacified or diminished, in other words - one who is in a state between the fourth and the tenth gunasthana. Why, even up to the eleventh gunasthana where the feeling of moha goes on diminishing or subsiding gradually. That state where the feeling of veetaraaga goes on increasing gradually.
One, within whom such a state has awakened, is a jnani. In other words, that state where the attachment for the sansar or the feeling of sansar is absolutely diminished or is gradually diminishing, is the jnani state. Otherwise, a jiva who is attracted to all the feelings of sansar, who harbours affection for sansaric feelings, who is attempting to attain them and has also learnt many scriptures, is not a jnani, but in an illusion of knowledge.
One whose state of knowledge is really awakened within will have an altered viewpoint. With that change in the viewpoint, its entire universe looks different. The desirability that an ajnani jiva sees in material substances, the attraction that pudgals tempt
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