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Guna and Dosha
If anything is smeared with some impure stuff, that which purifies it is considered the purifier, till it removes the smell and the coating of the impurity and restores it to its natural state.
Bathing, charity, Tapas, ceremonies like the wearing of the sacred thread, remembering the Lord and His name, Sandhya, prayer and meditation according to stages of life and strength purify a man. Thus purified, a twice-born should proceed to do his duty or religious acts.
The purity of the Mantras arises from properly knowing it from the preceptor. Mantra has force, purity and efficacy. Actions become pure if they are offered unto Me. The purity of the above six factors viz., place, time, substance, agent, Mantra and specified acts leads to righteousness, and the absence of it to unrighteousness.
Sometimes what is said to be good may become bad and what is bad may become good in the light of the rule or on account of an injunction. Thus the rule that defines things as good and bad acts abolishes their distinction.
In the case of those who have once fallen, any of their acts common to all in that state or the doing of any evil deed does not become the cause of further fall; association with the opposite sex is allowable in the case of a householder; for the person already lying low on the ground has no fear of a further fall.
From whatever one abstains, one gets rid of that. This is the righteous course or conduct that leads to the happiness of men and removes their sorrow, delusion and fear.
By mistaking external objects to be good, man gets attached to them; from attachment arises the desire to possess them and desire leads to quarrel among men.
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