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(d) Māna (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.
(f) Harsha, literally means pleasure, but here it means in a technical sense giving pleasure to the mind by causing unnecessary pain to others, or by engaging in gambling, hunting, shooting, etc-sport.
(Incidental) Insentient things are only temporarily units; but sentient beings remain the same individual for all time. Any insentient thing, as a teacup, consists of matter, and that matter did and always will exist in some relationship; it cannot be destroyed. A sentient being is a soul and cannot be destroyed as an individual.
6. The layman who wishes to take the first steps towards spiritual progress should avoid (or
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