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stage of Praśama is reached, the spiritual aspirant is at the verge of enlightenment or self-realisation. As the outer disposition of an aspirant is indicative of his inner calmness or otherwise, Praśamaor Upasama are vital indicators of his right or false vision.
Samvega -
The second indicator of right vision is Samivega or intense desire to attain liberation from the miserable and spiritually inhibiting mundane existence. The state of purity of the soul is its natural state and there is no wonder that every rightly inclined soul desires to revert back to its natural state, just as every traveller desires to reach back home from a tiring journey. As it is natural for every traveller, who is not a homeless nomad, to wish to come back home, so is the case with every soul, which is not false-- visioned, to crave to reach the home ground of liberation. Nirveda -
Nirveda is the psychic state in which the aspirant constantly feels that his worldly existence is like a prison where he has been .imprisoned. He feels the futility of the worldly relations and mundane affairs from the spiritual point of view and develops a sense of detachment towards the mundane. This neutral detached disposition is evident in his every action. He does everything expected of him but as a matter of duty, without any sense of involvement and attachment. This sense of detachment is the third sign of right-vision. Anukampā –
Anukampā or compassion is the fourth sign of right-vision. An aspirant imbued with compassion is not only moved by the pain and sufferings of the others but is also aware of the sufferings that the karmic bondage and worldly existence have wrought upon his own soul. As much as he is eager to mitigate the sufferings of the others by helping them, he is equally eager to mitigate his own sufferings by leaning on to the spirituality.
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