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CHAPTER 5
AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS
दोहा : "बहुविधि मिथ्या गहनकरि, मलिन भयो निज भाव ।
Tint Eta 3THTC , Herry chra II" (Due to deep false belief, knowledge & conduct of different kinds, our natural disposition has become foul. When such delusion is destroyed then automatically natural form of self-qualities get manifested. )
As described earlier, this mundane being is found indulging in wrong belief-knowledge-conduct since eternity. Due to that, bearing the sorrows in the world, he, rarely, in the human state of existence, attains the power of having distinct belief, etc. There, if by indulgence in the specific causes of wrong belief, etc., he fosters the same wrong belief, etc., then getting rid of sorrows becomes extremely difficult.
For example, some person is sick; if he after getting some relief, starts taking unwholesome diet then it will be very difficult for him to get rid of that disease. Similarly, this Jiva is having wrong belief etc.; if he after obtaining some greater power of knowledge etc., starts indulging in the specific cause of perverse belief etc. then his liberation (from karmic bondage) will become extremely difficult. Therefore, as a physician, by pointing out the details of unwholesome diet, advises the patient not to take those things; similarly, by explaining the specific causes of wrong belief etc., he is advised not to indulge in those causes.
Here the false belief etc. dispositions which are found from eternity, are to be known as Agraheet-Mithyatva (not newly adopted false belief etc.) because those are not newly adopted. And their
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