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[ 29 ] amara ( Franai mantar ) through the knowledge of principles. Weiter goes afar, hence is destroyed. .
The inveterate enemy, delusion, perforce, destroys the true knowledge and the discriminating powers of worldly beings. This world, overpowered by, infatuation, is itself blinded. The illusion disappears (only) through the knowledge of religious truth.
Notes:--Fond attachment to gross bodies, wives, wealth, children etc, generally destroys manly virtues. The power of this delusion is essentially spread over all human activities, and tends to create false hopes, the springs of innumerable miseries.' It begets various other passions. It obstructs our faculty of realising and relishing the truth, and impedes right actions. .
All these illusory attachments disappear when the light of truth dawns on our mind. Healthy. prescriptions of reason, brought on by the precepts of holy texts and pious associations, prompt relinquishment of desires and delusion and bring the mind under sound control.
