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Chapter # 4: Spiritual development stages.
Chapter # 4.1 Nature of the real happiness.
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Every mundane soul wishes for happiness and tries to obtain happiness, but cannot achieve it. Why is this so?
Since the mundane soul has not known the real nature of happiness, it has no way of knowing how to obtain true happiness.
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What is the real nature of true happiness?
The soul has an affirmative attribute (Anujivi guna) called happiness. The pure state of this attribute is called real happiness. This is the true nature of the soul. The mundane soul, transiently and briefly perceives happiness, as a result of the fruition with the pleasure producing karma. As a result, he wrongly believes that to be the state of real happiness.
471. Why does the mundane soul not achieve real happiness?
Since the mundane soul has the wrong belief, the wrong knowledge, and, the wrong conduct, it cannot achieve real happiness.
472. Does the mundane soul ever achieve real everlasting happiness?
Yes, the mundane soul obtains nirvana (Moksha), and then he also attains the real everlasting happiness.
473. What is the true nature of the moksha?
When the soul is free from all the material karma (Dravya karma) as well as all internal thought process (Bhav karma), then this state is called moksha.
474. What is the process of obtaining moksha?
Stopping and shedding (Samvar and nirjara) of all the material karma and internal thought process (Dravya and bhav karma) is called the moksha.
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