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Friends, you have realised that even after conversion of heart, this smoker is not able to transform life. How unhappy and distressing becomes the mentality of the man caught in the clutches of circumstances !
Here is a man who became a firm believer in the hard truth of non-smoking of cigarettes. Yet he was not able to embody this truth in conduct.
It means that for the souls that sincerely become staunch partisans of truth, the gate (hole ) of the first cause for the influx of the putrid stream of Karmic particles becomes closed and consequently to that extent this corrupting stream is stopped from entering the reservoir of the souls. And thereafter when truth comes to be translated into practice and the life begins · to be transformed, you can well imagine what immense joy it gives to these souls.
The hole of the second number is rather big from which in absence of right conduct, the polluting flow of Karmic particles is rushing in the soul. This hole also is being filled upto the extent right conduct is incorporated in life. The complete implementation of right conduct means the complete closure of this hole.
But for the souls who inspite of being firm adherents of truth are not able to incorporate it in conduct, only the first gate is closed but the second remains open.
But the imbalance between right faith and right conduct does not last long. Sooner or later, the time arrives when the faith imbedded in the heart is actualised in conduct.
We have discussed two causes which are responsible for the attraction and assimilation of the Karma particles with the soul.
(Let us now come to the third cause. It is the unhealthy surging vibrations of passions in the soul.)
These stormy vibrations continuously arise in the souls, who are not equipped with the exalted practices of fast, renunciation etc. At times, these upsurging vibrations assume
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