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difference is the lack of the rope tied to the neck. From this naturally they come to the level of bhakti.
The jihwachaapalya referred to here is not the the initial stages of jihwachaapalya. It is jihwachaapalya as relates to a person who has developed viveka and vairagya meaning that even persons having developed these will have it.
An elucidation on this – When we are in the annamaya kosa the first knot is cleaned. A rational mind would demand that jihwachaapalya also must be cleaned. A rational mind naturally demands that this should be done by then but in our system it doesn’t happen. We move on from the 1st knot to 2nd knot even having some of these traits and this is nothing unusual. Traditionally also we have seen people who have moved onto the higher plane. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa cannot be accused of having jihwachaapalya but still he had the quality of liking candy. Vivekananda cannot be accused of suffering from jihwachaapalya but has a particular liking to sandesh. Lalaji cannot be accused of suffering from jihwachaapalya but he had a chapalya for arvi. So, it really doesn’t die, there will be some residue and that
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