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Letter 25
will land into great trouble. Because he will renounce and leave aside doing all good deeds or having Shubha Bhavas and will get more and more entangled in having Ashubha Bhava.
But this fear is baseless. Because what one has to get rid of is the belief that, Shubha is good and one has to keep on doing Shubha Bhava. Who has ever preached that we should leave aside Shubha? Can you tell me whether this very study, or the discussion going on about the fallacies of beliefs is Shubha Raag or Ashubha Raag? This is definitely a Shubha Raag. And where is the necessity to preach that one should do Shubha Bhava? All the Jeevas in all the four phases even the minutest phase of being namely Nigod continuously have this cycle of Shubha and Ashuba Bhavas.
I will give you an example of a girl since you are girls. As soon as a daughter is born, the parents think and believe that she belongs to some one else and at one particular time in life she has to leave their house and will go to her husband's house. In our society the girl is considered to be somebody else's asset with us for safe keeping. And it is to be given away to him at a certain point of time. In other words she is Heya i.e. worth giving away.
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But despite this belief are the parents careless or callous about her bringing up, her education and developing her into an independent able human being? In fact, parents are more concerned and careful in bringing her up and protecting her. And in the case of the daughter, she wants to come back to her parent's house more frequently in the initial days of her married life. But as the days and years roll on she gets so much attached to and engrossed in her in-law's house that even when she comes to her parent's house, she is eager to go back to her house.
Same is the case with the Asravas. Though one considers them to be Heya i.e. worth renouncing and believes it to be so, yet till they are not totally abandoned and Shuddha Bhava is evolved, more and more Shubha Bhavas of better quality or intensity keep on evolving. And even when Shuddha Bhava is evolved Asravas do keep on coming back.
As the intensity and frequency of Shuddha Bhava increase, though the Asravas have not totally gone yet one keeps on having the longing to go back in the state of Shuddha Bhava. And in the end a time comes, when the Asrava, Bandhas are totally gone or there is total absence of Asravas and total Shuddhi is evolved, which is the state of Moksha. So it is not an instantaneous step from Asravas to Moksha; but it is a continuous progressive process.
A mother who really cares for the well being of her daughter keeps on telling her that this maternal home is Heya for her and that the house of the husband or in-laws is Upadeya i.e. it is her own home.
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