Karma Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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certain things which he ought to yield to. The next degree upwards, may be compared to a dry piece of wood, if you apply oil, or soak it in water for sometime then it bends, but still not very easily. The next degree is like cane, you can bend it at once, the person yields at once to the right. Pride is like a mountain in front of one, it hides the view, it obscures knowledge, we do not see beyond that which is immediately in front of us.
DECEITFULNESS. Its chief characteristic is crookedness; the conflict between the thought and the action. The first or worst degree may be compared to the knot in bamboo, you cannot make it straight. The next to the horns of sheep, it is with great difficulty that they can be straightened. The next to the course of water from a sprinkling can, it will be there so long as the water is there but it will dry up and then the crookedness will be gone (the waye line of water). The next to shavings of wood, they are beni but you can straighten them at once. Deceit prevents right belief about people.
GREED. The chief characteristic is attachment or clinging to; it is the identifying of the self with the not-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; ang. yet half a dozen cups may break in the Chin