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the identification of ourselves with that which is not ourselves. Of each of these intoxicating energies four degrees of intensity are recognised, the one which would last for the rest of the life being the most intense. Thus out of twenty-five energies we have sixteen which prevent us in greater or lesser degree from acting rightly.
17 to 25. The remaining nine energies are false liking, false disliking due to prejudice, laughing and joking, in this mood we are not in the straight line of the acquisition of truth;--sorrow or grief, in which state our actions are injurious to the body, also we may wrongfully blame others; fear prevents right action, the more there is of kind desire to do good to others the less there will be of fear; disgust, this stops right thought and right action. Thus we have six of the nine energies; the remaining three are the sex passion as found in males, females, and neuters.
Thus we have twenty-eight forces in us under the influence of which we allow ourselves to be deluded and to act wrongly. They may be compared to a stimulating intoxicating liquor. When we have freed ourselves from their influence we shall always form right beliefs and always act rightly, making no mistakes.
CLASS V. (AYUH)
The energies which come under this class are those which prevent our having a continuous life in our own soul as a pure substance, they are those by reason of which the duration of any particular life period in a parti
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