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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
In human life, if someone wishes to make effort for self-benefaction then he can do so. For example, the root and the top insipid portions of a worm-eaten sugarcane are not at all worth sucking and the middle pieces being worm-eaten are also not worth sucking. If someone greedy of taste spoils them he is free to do so, but if those are sown then many sugarcanes will be produced out of them and their taste will also be very sweet. Similarly, the childhood and the oldage of human life are not worth enjoying and the middle age is full of diseases and distresses; happiness cannot be there. If someone greedy of carnal pleasures spoils it he is free to do so, but if it is used in the observance of religious conduct then he will attain a very high spiritual status. There, high degree of imperturbable happiness is found. Hence, here (in this human birth) one should make effort for self-benefaction and should not lose it in vain under the delusion of happiness.
Miseries of celestial beings In the celestial state of existence, the power of knowledge etc. is somewhat more than the others. They have false-belief about the Tattvas due to perverse faith. Their passions are somewhat feeble. The passions of the Residential (Bhavanavasi), the Peripatetic (Vyantara) and the Stellar (Jyotiska) orders of celestial beings are not very feeble and their upayoga (active consciousness) is very fickle; they possess some power also; so, they indulge in the acts of passions, keep engrossed in the frolicsome acts and carnal pleasures and due to that restlessness they are only unhappy. And heavenly Gods (Vaimanikas) of higher and higher orders have decreasingly less passion and the power is increasingly more. Hence, due to decrease in restlessness anguish also decreases.
Here in the celestial beings, the anger and pride passions are found but the motivating cause is less; so, the acts of those passions are not predominant. The lower classs of Devas (celestial beings) are found indulging in causing harm and humiliating others due to forlicsomenss, etc. But this type of behaviour is found in lesser measure in the higher class of Devas (Vaimanikas). It is not predominant. And the causes of deceit and greed passions are found there; that is why the acts of those passions are predominant. As such the acts of deceiving, desiring the objects of sensual pleasures,
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