In English
Reasons for man's display of animal qualities
Sometimes some persons tend to indulge in petty thefts. This is derived from previous lives spent as a cat. Similarly, the vascillating and fickle nature displayed by a person may be attributed to a previous life as a monkey. Fickle mindedness is characteristic of the monkey. Some persons are incurably ungrateful. They indulge even in harming those who help them. This is not a human trait. How, then, is it present.in a man? It is because he must have been a serpent in a previous birth. The serpent is notorious, for emitting poison even when fed on milk. So, an ungrateful person must have been a serpent in some previous life. One should offer, therefore, at the altar of his mind as a sacrifice his stubbornness, thieving propensity, ingratitude and pride. This is the Inner Yajna. Unfortunately, instead of performing sacrifices of this kind people treat goats and fowl as offerings. As a result the bad qualities continue to grow in man. It is to eliminate this evil sense of ingratitude that external sacrifices like and have been recommended to man. enable us to promote and refine the beneficent qualities in man. In the yajna is the principal deity generally invoked. is the presiding deity of the mind, which is the master of the senses. It is because the senses tend to dominate the mind, instead of being subservient to it, that is invoked in this yajna. has another name , that is, one who is invoked frequently. is defined as the Supreme Lord, the of all the (sense organs). When a man has mastered all his sense organs, he becomes ! When we wish to progress from .the human to the Divine state, the state of , it has to be sought through (spiritual discipline).