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subsided, especially those pertaining to attachment and ego.
In order to successfully reduce mundane activities, attachment and pride, an aspirant has to understand what this worldly life is, why one gets birth and death, suffering and happiness, what are the causes which make one suffer the above states and conditions.Srimad has explained and discussed these matters and emphasised that the causes for suffering are nothing but the passions and ignorance.By ignorance he means the ignorance of one's own identity. One does not know that one is all powerful God himself because this power is covered by karma-bandhas, caused by indulging in various passions..
Śrīmad has, therefore, pointed out that selfrealization and liberation means nothing but absolute or total passionlessness. On achieving total vītarāgatā, one's soul becomes or rather acquires absolute purity and that is liberaiton. An aspirant, therefore, has to have the goal of being totally passionless, which means total destruction of the karmabandhas already acquired in the past and cessation of acquisition of fresh karma handhas, which in effect means no fresh birth and final emancipation.
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