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up, and therefore some only need to be given up at first ; and so he may enjoy sense pleasures to a degree commensurate with his business and household duties, that is to say he should give up those sense pleasures which conflict with his duties. And he should control all those sense enjoyments which would encourage or feed any of the following six things, namely :
(a) Kāma or sexual passion, lust, the lustful eye, in regard to a woman or girl not the man's own Wife. This passion in this form should be conquered.
(6) Krodha must be conquered. It is that emotion which is the cause of hurting or injuring done in a rash way. This may be called 'anger': there are the two elements of (1) injury to another, and (2) rashness of the action or speech.
(c) Lobha (greed) must be conquered ; it is either or both of the following two modes of being greedy: (1) not relieving a genuine case of distress when you are appealed to or that comes to your notice, you, of course, being able to give the relief. (2) taking property from people in an illegitimate way without any cause or reason : not by force but by persuasively getting the person to part with his property. Shop people do this when they induce to purchasers to buy goods. In theft this consent of the owner is not obtained, in theft the money is taken against the owner's will.
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