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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 3, 15th October 2020

orderly higher life and they feel truthfulness not properly dissipated, it can build up as
as incapacity and a great threat to their pressure in some part of the body and this
existence. can damage the natural balance on mental,
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Matsarya or envy is a natural consequence of vital, physical or biochemical level.
egocentricity. The person under the influence
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of matsarya begins to hate everyone and sees Maatsarya is the first instinctual line of
perversities around him. This is a phase of defence that differentiates life and inert
defeat of mada or egocentricity. He thinks matter. The second line of defence is pain.
that others are planning conspiracies in order The instinctual solace from these reactions
to prove that he is always wrong and he is comes from attraction towards the opposite
thus busy in self-justification all the time. It sex and the search for food. A group reaction
is a necessary outcome of excess of ego and of this emotional insecurity is war-mood.
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the damage that is caused by matsarya on the A strong and unalterable sense of duality
mind lasts longer than all other emotions. is the hallmark of Arissaddvargas. This game
When all other emotions have a tendency of Life is all about one`s survival at the cost
to represent themselves as diseases of the of other`s life. Before the life is lost, the
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physical body, matsarya has its effects more being wants to enjoy AAnanda rasa or the
on the mind than on the body. Only a selfless nectar of ecstasy in whichever form it is
love that is greater than the ego can heal the hidden in the guise of matter before it is
wounds caused by the destruction of ego. possessed by another being. As long as
A person is unintentionally attracted to the the five senses do not convey the unitary
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spiritual life because of matsarya, as he feels experience that fills the gulf between the
a dearth of love everywhere in the lower mind or manas and universal consciousness
nature. If not attracted so, he would live with or citta, the fight between the egos cannot
a mental derangement of varying intensities. stop and the sense of duality re-enters within
If he is happy to live longer in the lower seconds as the touch of universal consciousness
nature, he is engaged in fresh expressions of recedes back, leaving the senses separated and
kama and krodha and so on. split. Any amount of pacifying, caressing,
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convincing are temporary moral or ethical
The advantage that maatsarya gives to a methods characteristic of mind and so
person or animal is that it prevents him cannot change this vital attitude. The only
from falling into the trap of adversaries. A solution lies in restoring the ego to its place of
deeper fear of self-annulment prevents the prestige and putting it back in an atmosphere
ego from destroying itself and so all modes where it can grow further by the affirmation
of protection are fully utilised by these of self through the strength of ego into a
people or animals and they tend to react state of egolessness and selflessness. The
even before they are attacked. An amount emotional transformation that takes place
of stress is generated because of excessive through proper alignment of ego with the
diversion of energy for self-protection. This neighbouring egos is the life of a family.
stress is generated even because of the other Caste, community, religion and nation
five emotions but this becomes overtly visible are synonymous to the sense of belonging
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in the phase of matsarya. When this stress is which is typical to family. Caste, community,

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