Passage 9

In English

Our body also is like a football. Our six inner enemies - desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride, and jealousy ( , , , , , and ) - are on one side and truth, righteousness, peace, love, nonviolence, and compasssion ( , , , , , and ) are on the other side. The players on both sides are hitting the football, the body. How long will they hit? As long as there is air of ego in it. The moment the air of ego is gone, they will stop hitting it. So, ego is responsible for all problems. Hence, in the first instance, you have to subdue the ego. Your ego hurts and harms you only. The cause is ignorance. What is this ignorance? As knowledge is on the rise, ignorance is also increasing. There is enormous increase in the knowledge of science today, but along with that, ignorance is also increasing proportionately.