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SPIRITUAL LIGH'T. defiance to good counsel and reasoning. It undermines the true worth of doers and their deeds. It invites hostilities and bitter feelings without any advantage, nominal or substantial. The proud man is in capable of cherishing true love for other and also of baying it from others. He disparages virtues and depreciates goodness by vain glory: In short it works all possible disorder, suffering and mischief. The best way to be free from these passion is to enter into its inquiry as to its metaphysical and ethical aspects. Reflections on vanity and of human wishes, vicissitudes of fortune and ravages of time, unreliableness and mutability of the worldly things and concerns etc., will shed luminous light on the mind to understand the true nature and the working of the contemptible passion resulting in degradation, moral, intellectual, spiritual, social and physical. Hypocrisy is a dreadful fire scorching the vitality of heart. It impedes the acquisition of firm belief and true knowledge. It is the source of misfortunes, calamities and troubles. However shining it may be, in appearance, it is far from contributing to the accumulation of wealth and true happiness and prosperity. . From hypocrisy springs false speech, prominent of all vices. It mars one's prestige and reputation. Experience proves that generally people of unbounded hypocrisy never gain success in having their desired objects. In spite of such results the masses of people are entangled in the snares and meshes of this abominable vice. It is quite in consonance with the misleading delusion. Those people
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