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Answer: The Jivas who develop attachment-aversion feelings by engaging their Upayoga in substances which are the instrumental cause of auspicious and inauspicious dispositions and if they contemplate on the nature of the self-soul then their attachmentaversion feelings are reduced - such Jivas of lower spiritual state are admonished to meditate in the aforesaid way. For example, some woman used to go to other person's house with carnal desire; she was forbidden to go to other's house and was advised to remain at her own house. But if a woman visits some other person's house without any lustful desire and behaves in a befitting manner then there is no fault. Similarly, the state of Upayoga which used to indulge in other substances with attachment · aversion feelings is forbidden to engage itself in the other substances and advised to remain engrossed in self-soul. But that disposition of knowledge (Upayoga) which engages itself in the other non-self objects with the feeling of passionlessness and behaves righteously is not censurable.
Again he says, “Ifit is so then why do the great ascetics renounce thoughts of possessions etc.?"
Answer:As a chast woman avoids going to others' houses which are the cause of unchastity, similarly the passionless disposition of Upayoga avoids engaging in other non-self substances which are the cause of attachment - aversion feelings. And visiting of such houses which are not the cause of adultery is not forbidden. Similarly, knowing of other substances which are not the causes of attachmentaversion feelings is not prohibited.
Again he says, “For example, if a woman goes to her father's house with some purpose, she may go; but going to this or that person's house purposelessly is not desirable. Similarly, one should engage his Upayoga in contemplation of seven Tattvas with some purpose but engaging one's Upayoga purposelessly in contemplation about Guna-Sthanas, etc. is not desirable ?
Answer: For example, a woman can go to her father's or friend's house with some purpose; similarly, for knowing the specialities of Tattvas the Upayoga can remain engrossed in contemplation about Guna-Sthanas and Karmas, etc. also. Further, it should be known here that as a chaste woman willfully should not go to the house of
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