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PREFACE : LVII
is praśama. It includes upaśama, which is only their partial subsidence. In the case of upaśama, it is only the most persistent and infinitely bonding passions, called Anantānubandhi kasāya, that are subsided. Unless the infinitely bonding persistent passions are subsided, the subject cannot hope for the right vision to dawn, for such persistent passions cloud his vision. Once the 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, Praśama or Upaśama are vital indicators of his right or false vision. However, according to the author of Pañcalingīprakaraṇam, upsama is the subsidence of false vision or mithyātva.
Samvega -
The second sign of right vision is samivega or an 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 it, 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 the case with every soul, which is not false-visioned, is 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
