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SUBDIVISIONS OF CLASS 4
This completes the list of the 28 kinds of the Class 4 or Mohaniya karma, 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 first the split in fhe 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 next degree which is less intense, inay be compared to splits in clay; they will remain until rain falls and, moistening the clay, the splits will be joined together. You may be angry with a person until somebody else comes and makes peace by taking and showing or explaining the folly of anger. The next degree may be compared to ruts in sand, they will remaid until the wind blows the sand together; and the mild degree of anger can be compared to a line made in water, with a stick; the joint is effected as soon as the dividing instrument is withdrawn; in this degree the anger is checked by the mind, the moment it is felt to be rising.
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