Passage 8

In English

In this context, for our attaining a high and respectable position or a low and despicable position, our qualities alone are responsible. Our good and our bad are contained in our qualities. For all these things, the factor that is responsible is one’s selfishness. So long as this selfishness is present, man cannot experience any kind of happiness. The quality of selfishness is of a demoniac nature. It does not take into consideration the happiness or the well-being of others.