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Letter 11
Some are worried about the upbringing and the education of their children. Some about their higher education to become doctors and engineers as per their own aspirations, while others are under stress to amass as much wealth as they can and then worried about not loosing it! Still others are strained to maintain the discipline in the family. Elders are afraid, lest any member breaks the family code of conduct and disobey them! The fear of ageing, fear of contacting dreadful diseases, and eventually the fear of death and so on....... there is no end to the worries.
The main cause of all this is that this Jeev considers himself as the doer and the care taker of others and their activities. And has false ego about himself that without him nothing will work; he alone is the centre of all the activities. This false myth which he builds around himself is the cause of his permanent sorrows.
In case of some special major projects or proposals, when he feels are beyond his capacity then he prays to the so called Gods whom he considers to be the ultimate creators and controllers of things and happenings in this world.
Since he dose'nt know the nature of God in the true sense he begs and pleads before the Veetaragi Gods for a son, for health, wealth etc. Thus he worships God out of expectations or sometimes even goes to the extent of worshiping those who are themselves passionate, angry, violent, biased etc, they are called Kudev ca, Kuguru 45. And those books ( scriptures ) which teach or propagate wrong ideas and beliefs about Dharma and philosophy etc, are known as Kushastra pa. So acquiring and strengthening wrong and false belief and knowledge about Dharmaand God is called Gruhit Mithyatva गृहीत मिथ्यात्व.
If incidences take place in accordance with our plans, then our ego is boosted up, but if they don't happen according to our wishes and plans then we blame Karma for it, and start fearing Karma.
When children don't listen to us, they don't study, they don't have their meals, we scare them, by creating a scary image of an imaginary demon so that out of fear they quickly start eating and studying. In the same manner we have made Karma a frightful demon in our lives before whom we all surrender and bow down.
In fact, Karma is Pudgal and its activity is going on because of its own attribute of Vastutva and within its own Swachatushtaya. And I am Jeev Dravya, my activity or modification is going on because of my attribute of Vastutva. This fact never dawns on this soul that these are two separate state of facts and have a total different entity.
So, my dear, can you see for yourself the advantages of knowing each new attribute? By leaming and then thinking and analyzing whatever we have learnt we acquire the right knowledge of the nature of substances and we are rewarded with its fruits immediately. It's not like
