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to hard subjection this intoxicated elephant of selfishness. If this experiment proves successful, take it for granted that it will not take much time or exertion to uproot the poisonous creeper of unevenness and raise the fragrant flowers of evenness.
Dagger of Efficient Control necessary :
Each soul is suitably inherent, with consciousness and human life has been recognised as sublimely conscious. In order to protect this consciousness from the fatal attacks of selfishness there can chiefly be two methods as follows:
(1) First efficient control consists of souls' self-control and
that is virtual restraint: One who identifies by his own knowledge and discretion the path of degression, he by way of practical usage in life desires to avoid himself from those blemishes which tend his decline. None can challange the supremacy of self control.
(2) The second control is social : So long as sufficient
proportion of discretion does not manifest in the attainments of soul, or there is unbridled lust to incline towards indulgences, till then the individual selfishness can be restrained only by social means. Even in the case of self control, whenever weal moments creep in and danger of slipping becomes certain, then also only the social control can prevent the man's self-interests to be aggressive.
Both these methods have been termed as the two edged dagger of control, so that at every moment either of the two edges may dangle on the head of selfishness, in
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