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APPENDIX I - KOSAS
through stages of mood swings each gathering momentum and force through Kama, Krodha, lobha or moha, until there is total lack of self-control.
It is clear to us who follow this path that the goal of life is freedom from the cycle of rebirth. This we consider is the minimum goal while the real goal is to realize our true nature or to become a real man. Master says in his article “Yearning to reach the Ultimate” that ‘There are miseries all around for the embodied one. Even then, we remain so much attached to the body that this thing does not forsake us up to the end, and we even wish to be born again. It matters little that the wish is for being born in a prosperous home or in a royal family, since as soon as the Name (individual Existence) has arisen my brethren, misery would start in howsoever subtle mould it might be cast.” This leads to the question as to what is rebirth etc.,
If our present birth is the beginning and our death is the end of this life, we need not worry and try to understand the problem of suffering. A moral order (Rtam) in the Universe, the reality of right and
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