Passage 3

In English

For all people in this world, there is a common thought freely expressing itself in their minds. They feel that one should not commit sin, one should not speak untruth and that one should not harm others. But mere feeling and not putting into practice has become a feature characteristic of them. Knowing that to speak untruth is going to cause harm, yet people speak untruth. What is the meaning of this? Even after recognising that causing harm and hurt to others is going to reflect back on him some day or other, people cause harm and hurt to others. What is the inner motivation which makes one do these bad things even after knowing that they are bad? Not only this, man desires to get good fruit by doing and yet in actual practice, he does only papa. Man does not want to get the result of committing a sin, yet he undertakes to commit a sin. What is it that is inside him which promotes such action? In general, there are three kinds of qualities namely , and . Amongst these qualities, and are difficult and very harmful. The quality of has a son who has demoniac features in him. His name is or lust. This son, who goes by the name of or lust, enters the minds and hearts of several people and makes them do all kinds of bad things. He has a quality by which he can destroy many people by going near them. If this quality of comes close to a person, even his good qualities will be removed and subdued. was a great sage. He was a devoted person. Towards the end, because of the bad quality of or lust, he had done things which destroyed his entire dynasty and all his friends. Not only this, the third quality, namely has also got a son. He is a very cruel person. He is one whom we can call Anger. The moment gets hold of the mind of man, this other son Anger, will also get hold of him and will break the pot of wisdom which is contained in a human being. These qualities, lust and anger, do not promote good human nature. On the other hand, they destroy human nature and they take man to the very depths of destruction and barbarity.