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THE TRUTH
10-INSTINCTS
Stinging' impulses are the instincts.
mary instincts are only four :
(1) the instinct of life,
(2) the instinct of food,
(3) the sexual instinct, and
(4) the instinct of possession.
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Complex instincts are acquired in the course of life, but they are more like varieties of behaviour than pure instincts.
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Instincts may be trained, modified and even eradicated. The suicide defies the instinct of life; the celibate conquers the sexual urge; saints renounce the love of possessions, seeking to subdue their appetites; those who attain to omniscience overrule hunger itself, and live not by bread but by the nourishment of wisdom!
Fear, too, is conquered by saints, who are ever prepared for death, and remain unmoved by calamity and ill health.
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