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BOOK 2, LECTURE 2.
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mental, but real, conditions (of this kind), viz. wrath, pride, deceit, and greed; for wrath, pride, deceit, and greed are mental conditions. Thereby the bad Karman accrues to him. This is the eighth kind of committing sins, viz. by a mere conceit. (16)
9. Now we treat of the ninth kind of committing sins, viz. through pride. This is the case when a man drunk (as it were) with pride of caste, family, beauty, piety, knowledge, success, power, intelligence?, or any other kind of pride, slights, blames, abuses, reviles, despises somebody else and extols himself, (thinking :) 'he is my inferior, I am of better caste or family, and possess greater power and other advantages. When he leaves this body and is only accompanied by his Karman, he, without a will of his own, goes forth from womb to womb, from birth to birth, from death to death, from hell to hell. He is cruel, stubborn, fickle, and proud. Thereby the bad Karman accrues to him. This is the ninth kind of committing sins, viz. through pride. (17)
10. We now treat of the tenth kind of committing sins, consisting in bad treatment of one's friends. This is the case when a man living together with his mother, father, brothers, sisters, wives, sons, daughters, or daughters-in-law, severely punishes even the smallest offence of theirs; e.g. he ducks the offender? in cold water, or pours hot water over him, or scalds him with fire, or lashes his sides sore with a halter, reed, rope 3, strap of leather, whip, or
These are the eight kinds of pride, madasthânâni. 2 The original has kayam, the body.
s Nettêna =nêtrêna. The commentator says that it is a particular tree; but I think the usual meaning of nêtra, viz. rope, suits better.
