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untimely ruin.1 He who passionately hates a colour will, at the same moment, suffer pain. He who is very fond of a lovely colour hates all others, hence a fool suffers misery.3 He who has a passion for colour will kill many movable and immovable beings. A passionate fool intent on serving his own personal end torments those beings in many ways. When he is not satisfied with these colours and when his craving for them grows stronger and stronger, he will become discontented. Misled by greed, he will grab another man's property.5 When overcome by a violent desire, he grabs another man's property and when he is not satisfied with those colours, then his deceit and falsehood increase in proportion to his greed; yet he will not get rid of his misery. He who is indifferent to true colours is free from sorrows. All such passions as anger, pride, deceit, disgust, aversion to self-control, delight in sexual things, mirth, fear, sorrow, carnal desire for women, arise in him who is attached to pleasures. When he ceases to desire the objects of his senses his desire for pleasure also becomes extinct. A dispassionate man, who performs all duties, will quickly remove the obstacles to right knowledge and right faith." Then he knows and sees all things. He is free from delusions, hindrances, and sins. He is proficient in meditation and being pure attains beatitude.10 He gets rid of all misery which afflicts mankind. He becomes infinitely happy and obtains the final aim.11
SINFUL AND WICKED DEEDS
There are three ways of committing sins: by one's own action, by commission, and by approval of the deed. 12 A learned
1. Uttara, XXXII, 24.
2. Ibid, 25.
3. Ibid, 26.
4. Ibid, 27.
5. Ibid, 29.
6. Ibid, 30.
7. Ibid, 34.
S. Ibid, 102, 103.
9. Ibid, XXII, 108.
10. lbid, 109.
11. Ibid, 110. 12. Sülra, 1, 1, 3, 26.
