In English
Man has to be ever alert to avoid sin
The obligations that bind man can be considered under four heads: avoiding (sin), escaping (curse), observing (law) and following (ethical codes). Let us consider sin. Birds and beasts do not commit sin; they have no need to be specially careful to avoid it. For they are free from unrestrained imagination, of cleverness in manipulation or desire to accumulate and possess. Man alone has these qualifications and the duty to use them for his own good and the good of others. Man alone is equipped with a conscience and the faculty of reasoning which can present before him the pros and cons of every step in thought, speech and action. When his reason tells him that a certain thought or speech or action is wrong and he sets aside the judgement, preferring the evil, the wrong and the low, he sins. When an insane person commits evil no court of justice punishes him; it is only when a person, capable of distinguishing good from bad, deliberately chooses the bad, that his act is pronounced a sin. Man has to be ever alert to avoid sin.