In English
A person's activity reveals his personality
These three types are actually three strands intertwined into one rope. They cannot be untwined. A house is built of brick, mortar and wood. So too, for the mansion called human life, , and are essential, just as heart, hand and head. For spiritual success one should possess the heart of , the hands of Emperor and the head of . The three together in one, form the Love of . Of the three, the middle one, or activity, must be based on the synthesis of both and . The in which one is engaged is the measure of one's personality. Like a thermometer revealing the degree of warmth, reveals whether a man is predominantly thamasik, rajasik or sathwik. is important from another point of view. It shapes one's personality. The nature of the decides the nature of the consequence. We find many who decide not to utter falsehood but are yet doing so. They vow to follow an ideal but fail to follow it. Why is this so? Man has in him the three traits mentioned above. Of these, the (the passionate, emotional trait) has an offspring, (lust). The (the dull slothful trait) has children - Anger, Hatred, Envy and Selfishness. Lust is the leader of this gang of four. Lust forces entry into the heart through a gap he creates and the entire gang make it their den. Lust is all-consuming fire. Fire is known in Sanskrit a , which means 'not enough'! Moreover, one keeps away from fire when we see it even at a distance. What to say, then, when the fire of lust is a conflagration in the heart itself? How can we live in peace and joy when this fire is consuming us? We can quench this fire by the knowledge of the strategy of sense-control, through the exercise of discrimination.