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VICHAR MALA.
Admitting want of an inclination in the wise personally, yet when he is duly served with a good dinner, and suitable clothing by a man of faith and kindness, or maltreated by a hard-hearted person and beaten with a stick through the jn-, fluence of his natural badness, it is possible under such cir cumstances for him to give a blessing and curse according to the treatment he receives. To such an incorrect surmise, the reply is, as in the case of the individual's body, the hands serve as the means of conveying food to the mouth and in this serving it, the teeth are found at times cutting the tongue; yet the person knowing them all belong to him, is never offended; so a theosophist knows all are a part of Self, and he is therefore not offended with the teeth or maltreatment, so that he is neither pleased nor offended-or takes every sort of indignity upon himself: that is to say, he knows happiness and misery are owing to his fructescent works which have produced his present life and can only he exhausted by enjoying their results as mentioned in the Adhyatma Shastra. “One's accumulated works of previous births produce happiness or misery."
But to this text, objection is taken as follows;-
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To him the world appears tranquil, Who is himself tranquil in mind. But who connects it with three sorrows Shows inclination for its removal.
From want of knowledge, ignoranthpersons find three vae rieties of pain, Spiritual, Accidental, eto, affecting all creatures, and it is possible for them to desire its füestruction and be free from pain. And those who through howledge of Self, have no more desire and are tranquil in mind have an experience of felicity, and consider the world in than' way, so that they cannot have any inclination for its want or absence. As the. Triptidwipa has it :
