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Chapter 16
In the fortieth verse of the eighteenth chapter, the Lord declares, that there is no creature which is free from the three modes of nature. It proves, that every person in spite of being a fragment of the Lord, is born having affinity with nature (prakrti). He has the affinity of Tess and mineness with the body, an evolute of Nature; and the affinity of 'Mineness', with things, objects and persons etc., evolutes of Nature. This feeling of, 'I'ness or 'Mineness', is the fundamental mark, of demoniac nature.
A man's relationship with prakrti, is merely assumed. So he can renounce it. The reason is, that he (the self), is sentient and immutable, while prakrti is insentient and kaleidoscopic. So, there is no real relationship between the two, it is merely an assumed one. As soon as this relationship is renounced, the demoniac nature, is rooted out. A man, is fully capable of rooting out, demoniac nature.
The more, a man is attached to his life-breath, the mom, demoniac traits he possesses. When wicked traits, are on the increase, he harms others, in order to maintain his life-breath, and to enjoy pleasure. He does not, even hesitate to commit murder.
When a man regards, the temporary as permanent, and the unreal as real, all the demoniac traits naturally appear, in him without any effort and they having developed a disinclination for God, lead him to degradation.
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