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enemy lust. Apramad, ceaseless awareness and awakening, is the basis of Mahavira's dedicated spiritual practice, which is not a process but sheer spiritual consciousness - a pure awareness. It is a sustained endeavour to cleanse the mind of unwholesome mental forces which run beneath the stream of consciousness vitiating our thinking, values, attitudes, actions and goals. Elimination of delusion and eschewal of indolence opens the gateway to a pure life. By being fully aware, alert and conscious of the constantly moving present, one will experience his true nature.
Mahavira said, “The spiritual knowledge helps man to swim across the ocean of birth and death and leads him to gain immortality."
The destruction of karmic veils and the higher degree of purity of the soul is possible through the valid knowledge. The moment perversion is removed and knowledge purified into right knowledge, the process of self-realisation commences. It is the enlightenment which eradicates the passions of infinite intensity. Since the desire to live is eternal, impressions are also beginning less. The impressions being held together by cause, effect, basis and support, they disappear with the disappearance of these four. One whose passions have al vanished, whose desires have all disappeared, and who has not desire left within him. Then there is no reason for karma body to live with the soul and the soul is freed from its bondage. It is real freedom - freedom from the imprisonment by Karma. However, before a soul reaches the end of all sufferings, it first becomes the possessor of perfect knowledge and the
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