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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
when you are appealed to or that comes to your notice, you, of course, being able to give the relief. (2) taking property from people in an illegitimate way without any cause or reason: not by force but by persuasively getting the person to part with his property. Shop people do this when they induce to purchasers to buy goods. In theft this consent of the owner is not obtained, in theft the money is taken against the owner's will.
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(d) Mana [pride] here has a special meaning; it means the non-acceptance of the teachings of persons who are actively engaged in attaining the state of liberation, and this non-acceptance comes on account of obstinacy. You think "I know just as well as he does" and you reject the teaching, without testing or examining it.
(e) Mada. This is pride or boasting about one's family, ancestors, etc., about one's strength or physical power; about one's greatness (a Lord might think himself a great person); about one's beauty or handsomeness, or about one's learning. This pride is liable to become the cause of hurting others if it makes him look down upon others and think that, being a superior being, he has the right to tyrannize.
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(f) Harsha, literally means pleasure, but here it means in a technical sense giving pleasure to the
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