we have learned to identify ourselves as stained by three notions: (1) an identification with repercussions of former deeds known as karma mala, the stain of karma, (2) an identification with an essential sense of otherness, duality, māyīya mala, the stain of māyā, and (3) an essential and usually unarticulated conception of the self as inherently limited, aṇava mala, the stain of smallness.
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