Concentration

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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repulsion and attraction.
Anger may be of four degrees : that intense aversion to a person which makes one feel that they could not be amiable ever towards the person, and the other three degrees have already been described in the series on karma, they being less and less intense degrees of anger. The state should be acquired where anger when felt is at once checked by the mind. A state of anger will prevent right belief, it blinds one to the true facts; so also pride will cause wrong belief about a person, it causes you to overlook their good points, it prevents you from seeing the good qualities of another person. And deceitfulness and also greed prevent us from having a right belief about people.
With regard to pleasurable sensations the reason they are injurious is because the working of the mind stops at a pleasant sensation, when the pursuit of pleasant sensations is the object of concentration