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CHAPTER-III
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Question : Sometimes the functioning or actions of body and son, etc. also appear to be under the control of this Jiva; then at least at that time, this Jiva feels happy?
Answer: Coincidently, on meeting of the tendency of the desire of Jiva and of the destined change of the body, etc., some object modifies in a particular way as per his desire, therefore, at some moment, while thinking about the same event, one feels it to be happiness, but all the objects do not modify in all respects according to his desire, hence, in his thought-process, various forms of agitation continue incessantly.
Further, sometime, seeing the objects modifying in someway according to his desire, this Jiva feels oneness and mineness in the body, son, etc. So owing to this understanding, he always remains agitated from the anxiety of producing, nourishing and protecting them. Even by bearing several types of pains he wishes good of them.
And the desire of enjoying the objects, occurence of passions, agreeable-disagreeable feeling in external objects, adoption of contrary means, disbelief in right means and misconjecturing - the single root cause of all these is wrong faith (misbelief). On its destruction, all (perversities) get destroyed; therefore, the root of all miseries is this wrong faith only.
Further, he does not make effort to destroy that wrong faith also since he has accepted the wrong faith as to be the right faith; why would then he make effort ?
Further, if by chance the five-sensed rational being contemplates about the means of ascertaining the Tattvas (realities), thereupon, if due to misfortune, he comes into contact with the false deity, false preceptor, false scripture, then the mis-belief in Tattvas gets fostered. His understanding was that he will be benefitted by these but they provide such a means due to which he may become unconscious. He was making efforts for ascertaining the ture nature of substances (reality) but contrarily becomes firm in false-belief and consequently due to increase of passions and sensual desires, becomes more miserable.
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