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regard to her. He might then entertain the wish to drink some invigorating wine to enjoy her company better, and may think of praying to some god or goddess to influence and win her love, and may even wish to renounce the True Path, if it be necessary to do so, to win her favour or hand. Now, if the giving up of the desire for sexual enjoyment and wine had implied their total destruction they could not be formed again. What had happened was merely this that these desires were only subdued in the general subsidence of karmas that takes place in the eleventh gunasthana, and revived in the course of the fall from that state. In the twelfth stage there is no longer a subsidence but a total destruction of the avarana, the soul is rid of the agitations of the heart, and is therefore no longer liable to experience a fall from that high and sublime state. All this shows that the agitations of the heart can be destroyed all together only; not in bits; but they can be curbed and suppressed in increasing degree.
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When the faintest tinge of lobha (desire) existing in the tenth gunasthana is gone then alone will dawn the Sun of Omniscience, the harbinger of Freedom and Joy. This faint and imperceptible taint of lobha can be in respect of one thing only, probably the wish to retain bodily health and vigour to the end. For the saint has given up everything else in the earlier stages of the journey. According to the Puranas (Sacred Tradition), Swami Bahubaliji, who had renounced the world, was prevented by just one thought, namely, that he stood on his brother Bharata's land, from attaining Omniscience for a whole year.
From the above it should be quite clear that if there be present in the heart of the saint a desire to attend to the covering of his private parts, or a longing to obtain the good opinion of men who object to nudity of saints, or to please any one individual or community in that regard, such a desire alone will suffice to keep up the agitations of
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