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Namah The wheel of lower life

a thing that it possesses. It is the fourth capacity for making decisions is benumbed.
negative emotion in the order of emotions The Bhagavat Gita points out this orderly
starting from kaama and if it can be called succession of emotions as a passing-by
sublimation, this emotion is a sublimatory remark.
transition from sexual urge where the desired
thing is an abstract and wild pleasure to an
overpowering craving for the less abstract
and less obnoxious things without which
life considers itself to be lifeless. Moha helps
a person to get identified with the thing
before him and pushes him to the extremes
of his energies till it is achieved. Though it
is not an achievement in itself, the person
overpowered by moha does not understand it
to be so. It is a faulty identification of oneself
with the objects or situations or persons Mada or egocentricity is the fifth negative emotion
around and this happens when ego starts to and its chief feature is aggrandisement of the
take shape. Thus this emotion is a prelude to ego. The person under the influence of his ego
the formation of ego, an essential shift from begins to see nothing but himself everywhere
the Muladhara cakra to the Swadhitana cakra. around and thus he builds his own world
When concentrated in the Muladhara cakra, a of imaginations and he carries it with him
person considers himself to be one amongst all the time in his active and passive modes
all and feels nothing special or important (jagratha and swapnaavasthas). The faulty
about him and he has too much competition identification of moha carries itself further to
before him in order to exceed others. But in give rise to faulty analysis of mada. Due to
the Swadhistana, the person starts to feel that the loss of reasoning capacity, the person is
he is special and does things to make him prone to all kinds of delusions. It may look
appear special and is never happy to share strange but it is interesting to notice that it
his seat with others. gives a sense of fulfilment and achievement
to a person happily caught in the lower
Kaama, krodha and lobha are the fuels to this nature because there is nothing that
trend and moha is the starting-point of the can oppose him in his imaginary world
exhibition of this trend. As the expression and even his blunders are excused in the
of kaama is denoted by a cunning explosion, name of unavoidable circumstances. The lower
krodha by its overt explosion and lobha by world proudly celebrates the existence of such
its covert attitude, moha may be called an egocentric persons and these achievements
implosion because the person under the effect are considered as benchmarks for success
of this emotion becomes weak-minded and in life. Naturally they pursue their works
unable to memorise, analyse or discriminate with a sense of dexterity and do not hesitate
as he comes across the thing with which he to prey upon their inferiors in order to
is infatuated. As long as one is infatuated, survive. They disrespect the boundaries
one loses control over thinking and the that are meant to protect and organise an

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