By excessive conformity with social expectations, by indulgence in multiple textual arguments and by excessive attention to the body, true knowledge never arises in a person.
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1) loka–vāsanā – is the desire to confirm to social expectations and the desire to get admired by the people. 2) śāstra–vāsanā – it is of three types. i) Obsession to study Vedas. The example is of sage Bharadwaja who spent three lifetimes to study the enormous corpus of Vedic texts but could not even complete a fraction. ii) Obsession to study different śāstra–s. The example is of sage Durvasa who studied all the śāstra–s, without ever realising the Self. He was ridiculed and compared to a donkey carrying a heavy load. He threw away the śāstra–s in the ocean and learnt the knowledge of Brahman from Lord Shiva. iii) Obsession with rituals. The example is that of Daasura (in the Yoga Vasistam) who was obsessed with worshipping of deities. These examples are given in the Jivanmukti Viveka of sage Vidyaranya (Jagadguru).