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We must always remember that the activities that result in the increase of attachment, aversion, delusion, etc., is known as sanklesa. It is delusion and sin. They have no place in dharma and cannot be considered as meritorious. The attachment, aversion and delusion definitely reduce due to dharma and punya and the volitions are definitely purified. As restraint, renunciation and penance are not considered as abandonable even when attachment, aversion, passions and delusion are on the rise, so the auspicious activities should also not be considered as abandonable in their presence and rise. The reason being that these auspicious activities only help to reduce attachment, aversion, passions and delusion and do not increase them.
The volitional forms of the auspicious qualities like mercy, charity, etc., are closely linked with the spirit. Therefore, they result in majestic achievements of inner spiritual peace, liberation, happiness, immortality, etc. However, for the practical forms of these activities we have to depend on the physical entities and, therefore, we also get their result in the form of material mental, physical health and wealth. The cause and effect relationship of this phenomenon is as follows - Through the volitional forms of auspicious are feelings the spiritual flaws like attachment and aversion etc., reduced whereby the spiritual purity increases. Through this increased purity the spiritual development takes place. This spiritual development results in the vision and knowledge based qualities of the spirit. The development of the vision quality results in increased consciousness or power of self-realisation. As a result, as per the theory of karma., the related senses that can experience increased consciousness develop. That is - sensory organs, mind, intellect, etc., which can give expression to increased consciousness of the spirit are also gained in their more developed forms. Also, the beneficiaries of these auspicious activities also give respect and honour to the benefactor and at times also gift him material objects. Like this the practical forms of these auspicious activities are related to the physical world and their results are received in the physical forms.
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