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APPENDIX I - KOSAS
Those endowed with intellectual capacity are generally prone to yield to the feeling that they are competent and therefore are entitled for the results as a matter of right. Not only their ‘mine-ness’ is an obstacle but their expectancy of rewards is the basic barrier in the path of yielding.
The endowed also have the problem of their erudition extending to different fields and they feel that all are the same as they all lead to the same goal. It is a confusing logic that Ganges, Jamuna, Kaveri and other rivers that lead to the Bay of Bengal finally are the same as they their destination is the same. There is a basic refusal to understand the different routes and terrains they cross and the different regions they bless. The problem of not knowing that path which actually takes them to the goal and attempting to ride different horses according to their temperament at different times is one of the major problems in this Kosa.
Vijnanamaya kosa has the problem of making one who has purified that consciousness to some extent to think that he actually knows the path and
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