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DELUDING & LIFE-SPAN DETERMINING KARMA 127
next degree which is less intense may be compared to splits in clay; they will remain until rain falls and, moistening the clay, the splits will be joined together. You may be angry with a person until somebody else comes and makes peace by taking and showing or explaining the folly of anger. The next degree may be compared to ruts in sand, they will remain until the wind blows the sand together. And the mild degree of anger can be compared to a line made in water with a stick, the joining is effected as soon as the dividing instrument is withdrawn; in this degree the anger is checked by the mind, the moment it is felt to be rising.
Pride
The most intense degree may be compared to a pillar of stone, you can never make it bend; the man never yields, not when he is wrong; and is not tolerant, his obstinacy is very great (when he is in the wrong is meant). The less intense degree may be compared to a bone, it is difficult to bend it; it is only with great difficulty that the person who has this degree of pride, will 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 homs 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 next to shavings of woods, they are bent but you can straighten them at once. Deceit prevents right belief about people.
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