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33 next door and I 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 cannot 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 not regarded.
IMPROPER AND CONFIRMED PRE. JUDICIAL DISLIKINGS. Same as the previous, only disliking instead of liking.
SORROW is an obstacle to right conduct, because in the state of sorrow the actions are only
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