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pluck the fruits alone." This mental state is lotus-colour (padma) leśyā. The last said, “Brothers! Why bother? There are so many ripe fruits fallen to the ground. Let us pick them up and eat." This mental state is the white (śukla) leśyā.
The objective they want to achieve is one and the same. All want to eat jambū fruits. But the methods they suggest for achieving the objective differ widely. The methods suggested by them are the expressions of their internal mental states or leśyās.
Leśyā is of two types—dravya-leśyā and bhāva-leśyā. Dravya-leśyā is the material leśyā and bhāva-leśyā is its spiritual counterpart. Dravya-leśyā, as stated above, is of the nature of special material atoms. And bhāva-leśyā is the special state or transformation of soul due to passions and activities. The soul has infinitefold transformations due to the infinitefold degrees of passions. But in the scriptures, these transformations are classified, for the sake of convenience, into six main types, as shown above.
In the first three leśyās, there is indiscretion (aviveka). On the other hand, in the last three, there is discretion (viveka). In the first leśyā, indiscretion is at its highest degree. And in the last leśyā, discretion is at its highest degree. The intensity of indiscretion decreases more and more in the first three leśyās in accordance with their order of enumeration, while the intensity of discretion increases in the last three in accordance with their order of enumeration. The dense bondage of inauspicious or unwholesome karmas gradually decreases in the first three, while the bondage of auspicious or wholesome karmas gradually increases in the last three. Again, auspicious dissociation of karmas gradually increases in the last three leśyās. Cause-Effect Relationship Cause effect relationship means relation of the production of an effect with its cause. Let us take an illustration to understand it.
It is a rule of the science of logic that man first knows (conceives), then desires and after that performs volitional activity. Accordingly, in a potter who knows how to produce a pot, first there arises a desire to produce it, and after the desire, there takes place volitional activity. The potter who is ready to produce the pot must first conceive in his mind the form of the pot, of his choice, know how to produce it, the effect which he wants to produce, and keep constantly before his mind's eye the concep
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