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results in increased equanimity and the effect of painful feelings producing (Aśātā-vedaṇīya) karma is reduced as a result.
We have said earlier that the auspicious volition results in the expression of vision quality and that results in the increased power of self-experiencing. Due to the development of the power of expression and feeling it becomes finer and finer and results in the development of feelings through the senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing and the bodily infrastructure is created. Meaning that the body making (Nāma) karma only creates the physical part of the sensory organs, they get their power of experiencing by the development of vision quality.
Due to the purification of passions, the importance and value of the 'other' decreases and those of the ‘selfo increases, which results in the experiencing of high status. It becomes known that evaluating the self on the basis of the other, actually evaluates the other and the value of the self diminishes or it becomes valueless. This results in a feeling of inferiority. By not evaluating the self on the basis of the other means, that the pride is defeated and it results in self-satisfaction, which is indicative of higher status (Ucca-gotra) and a reduction (destructosubsidence of low status giving (Nīca-gotra) karma.
It is well known that purification of volition results in the rise in the intensity of the auspicious lifespan determining karma. Auspicious volition in the form of volitional purity results in the expression of selfexperiencing in the form of vision quality. The increased sensitivity results in the destruction of the feeling of cruelty and the awakening of the feeling of mercy and kindness. The practical form of kindness is generosity and service. Generosity expresses itself in the form of charity. Therefore, auspicious volition expresses itself in the form of generosity or charity, which indicates the reduction (destructosubsidence) of charity obstructing (Dānāntarāya) karma.
The reduction in passions in the auspicious volition results in the reduction of desires, the feelings of myness, pride, doership, and enjoyership. The reduction in desires reduces the feeling of want, which
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