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SUBDIVISIONS OF CLASS 4.
GREED. The chief characteristic is attachment or clinging to; it is the identifying of the self with the nol-self. (I think it was to illustrate this that the lecturer said when my child broke a cup and saucer the other day I got angry; and yet balf a dozen cups may break in the China shop next door and I do not feel injured or get angry about it ). ( The character is not injured by such losses, the moral nature; but it is injured by the anger ). The worst degree of greed may be compared to fast dye, it canot be removed, it will last the whole life time. Next to grease from a cartwheel hub, it is very difficult to remove, Next to colour which can be washed off with soap and water. Next to colour that can be washed off with water, you put it in water and the colour is off.
These qualities of anger, pride, deceitfulness and greed are qualities in a man's nature by virtue of which he cannot act rightly. Now there are nine more, namely:
LAUGHING & JOKING. When we are in this mood, we are not in the straight line of the acquisition of truth; it stops the right action and the right attitude.
IMPROPER AND CONFIRMED PREJUDICIAL LIKING. Such as party ' spirit, which upholds the political party whether right or wrong; favouritism, etc., it is when the merits and demerits are got regarded.
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