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feeling of praise for them and a sense of joy towards them. The pleasure that one gets in the company of the virtuous and by remembering them is not mundane pleasure but it is due to the basic spiritual nature. Attachment is unnatural while this pleasure is natural. Therefore, to consider love, affection and the sense of joy for the virtuous as attachment is an error. Attachment is abandonable, but not the love and affection. In attachment there is attraction and mundane pleasure while in love there is joy and happiness.
The four volitions of friendship, joy, kindness, and neutrality are auspicious. Being auspicious they are natural and not unnatural or flaws. The natural attributes are in the form of virtues, not vices. Unnatural attributes are flaws. The volitions of friendship, joy, kindness, etc., are virtues and not flaws. Because they are not flaws or vices they are not unnatural. Unnatural attributes can never be auspicious and similarly, the natural attributes or the auspiciousness can never be flawed. Therefore, the auspiciousness represents the virtues and not the vices. The karmic bondages take place due to the flaws and not due to the virtues. Therefore, to consider that the auspicious volitions or virtues like friendship, joy, kindness, compassion, affection, etc., result in karmic bondage and worldly transmigration is an error. As long as this error is not corrected, the awakening of humaneness is not possible.
Where even the humaneness is absent, dharma in the form of restraint, penance, karmic stoppage and separation, etc., and liberation is not possible. In the absence of humaneness, there is animal nature and devilry, which has no place in human life. Therefore, those who consider friendship, joy, kindness, compassion, affection, etc., as causes of karmic bondage and worldly transmigration consider virtues as vices, nature as antinature and the path of liberation as the path of bondage. Therefore, they are in falsehood and against the dharma, truth and humanity.
Now we have to consider as to what is the process of karmic destruction and separation due to auspicious volition? To do this we will have to consider the ancient treatises on karma theory and their
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