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dangerous forms. As otherwise, usually in the mild form they are always there in the soul.
The saints who have renounced the world and are passing through the preliminary or the secondary stage of spiritual exercises of fast, renunciation etc., are also subject to the inroads of these passions.
Lord Jina has depicted the fourfold nature of these passions : (i) Fury of anger (ii) Outbursts of conceit (iii) Frauds of deceit (iv) Greed of power, wealth and fondness for woman, body etc.
These four passions hold sovereignty over men, beasts and nature. The dreadul dacoits, extremely rich people, highly learned persons, rulers are subject to their all pervasive sway. They dwell even in an ant and also in the world of saints upto a certain stage.;
v Even in saints are found a trace of mild feeling of anger at an unpleasant occurrence, a taint of ordinary kind of pride for knowledge, spiritual practices of fasts and detachment, a faint fleeting desire to put on appearances by appropriate expressions of feelings and postures of body of a highly developed spiritual state, which in fact is non-existent and a feeling of attachment for devotees and disciples.
Yet not a single tremor of passion could be seen in the saints who have reached an exalted spiritual state. Mind well, these vibrations of a mild character are also very ruinous to the soul. When these vibrations get excited, they overthrow even a saint who has reached a high stage of spiritual development.
This is the third cause for the putrid Karmic matter to roll over the soul.
It so happens that at times even good and healthy Karmic water flows in. Bacause on occasions, passions of anger etc. have to be willfully feigned for achieving laudable ends. As for example, the exhibition of anger by the teacher for driving out laziness from the student.
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