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'A thief possesses a guilty heart' (his paces are infirm) who is a thief ? One who is not the owner of a thing, but he desires to take it away stealthily, it is called stealing, and one who commits such theft is called a thief. After comprehending this habit, you should cast a glance on every act of life and verify whether your life is not continuing on these lines.
Where there is a habit of stealing, decidedly there will be found timidity. As incongruity enhances so does timidness. On the enhancement of timidness, it is difficult for valiance to upsurge in any form. Venture and prowess do go together – if the determination is firm then deeds will also be confirm. Venture and prowess will beget on effacing incongruities and observing equanimity. In the internal and external life wheresoever there is unevenness, there you shall have to continue to strike blows. To the extent these blows continue, that much courage and prowess will augment because timidity will go on disappearing.
These blows struck on incongruity will first of all make an attack on the habit of stealing, The internal voice at once intimates a person as to where and how much he is entitled to his dues, and what he does not own. If one moves under the direction of the inner voice-there is no possibility to slip or commit an error. The voice of spiritual glee is the provision oj Equanimity and as much one hankers after bodily pleasures, that much he loiters in the darkness of incongruities. When one is enamoured to move towards evenness then the timidness pervading in life will also begin to vanish.
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