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6. Pride of a less intense degree 7. Pride of a milder degree 8. Pride of a still milder degree 9. Deceitfulness of an intense degree 10. Deceitfulness of a less intense degree 11. Deceitfulness of a milder degree 12. Deceitfulness of a still milder degree 13. Greed of an intense degree 14. Greed of a less intense degree 15. Greed of a milder degree 16. Greed of a still milder degree 17. Laughing and joking 18. Confirmed improper liking (liking without looking to
the merits of the thing liked) 19. Confirmed improper disliking 20. Sorrow or grief (which would include worry) 21. Fear (nearly all wrong action can ultimately be traced
to fear) 22. Disgust 23. The male sex passion 24. The female sex passion 25. The neuter sex passion
This completes the list of the 28 kinds of the Class 4 or Mohanīya karna, the nature of which is to intoxicate or infatuate the mind in such a way that it cannot distinguish between right and wrong belief or conduct. Now follows a more detailed description of them. Anger
The four degrees of anger may be compared respectively to different things; the first to the split in the side of a mountain, it will be there the whole life time; anger causes separation between persons and in this which is the most intense degree the anger is so great towards the person that you feel you can never be friendly or amiable towards him (or her). This is merely the description of the degree of anger, of course, by an effort of will and understanding it can be overcome. The
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