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Chapter 12
All the virtues and virtuous feelings, are born by having affinity for the real (God), while all the vices and evil feelings come from affinity, for the unreal world. Even the vilest person, cannot totally lack virtues, because he has affinity for the real (God), whose fragment he is. So, he possesses virtues and virtuous feelings, to some extent or the other. When he realizes God, his affinity for the unreal, is totally renounced and then all his vices and evil feelings, vanish.
Virtues are a divine endowment. The more, a striver is inclined to God or he holds Him, as supreme goal, the more, the virtues and good feelings, are revealed in him and the vices and evil feelings, vanish. When he realizes God, his affinity for the unreal is renounced, and all vices and evil feelings, totally go away.
Attachment and aversion, pleasure and pain, desire and wrath, are modifications of the mind, they are not permanent features, (Gila 13/6), like the heat in the sun. The heat cannot be separated, from the sun and so, affinity between the sun and the heat, is eternal and imperishable, while modifications, such as desire and anger do not remain permanently, even in common men these decrease in strivers and are totally absent in enlightened souls. Had these modifications, been innate, they would have remained uniform and would not have vanished, till the inner sense remained. Therefore, they are not innate, and rather come and go. The more a striver, advances towards his destination, of God-realization, the evils such as attachment and aversion become less and less and when God is realized, and these totally disappear.
The Lord, in the Gita time and again, has exhorted Arjuna to renounce attachment and aversion, (3/34, 2/64, 18/51) totally. It means, that they can be renounced, otherwise the Lord would not direct Arjuna, to renounce them.
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