The Sins
Feb 20, 2007
The semblance of the various sins described in the different religions is striking. When the Ego or ‘I’ consciousness has sided with the materialistic forces of creation, it is said to have these faults (sins).
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The following excerpts are taken from
‘Bhagavad Gita’ by Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
published by Yogoda Satsanga Society of India
Pride: Pride means the Love for the “I” or ego self that is constantly on the defensive (or offensive) to support and promote the interests of that self. Because of the mada, within the ego there arises arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, presumptuous behavior and passionate or wanton lust after the desires, interests, or demands of the “I, Me, and Mine”.
Jealousy/Envy: The word derives from matsara, meaning “envy jealousy, selfishness, hostility, passion for, exhilarating; intoxicative and addictive".
Lust: It is the compelling desire to indulge in sensory temptations. It applies to the abuse of any or all the senses in the pursuit of pleasure or gratification. Through the sense of sight man may lust after material, objects; through the sense of hearing , he craves the slow sweet poison of flattery, and vibratory sounds as of voices and music that rouse his material nature; through the lustful pleasure of smell he is enticed towards wrong environments and actions; lust for food and drink causes him to please his taste at the expense of health; through the sense of lusts after inordinate physical comfort and abuses his creative sex impulse.
Delusion: It is the basic attachment of the Ego, its indivisible cohesion to delusion, causing the mind to become darkened, unable to perceive what is truth and reality.
The basic meaning of the word is delusion, illusion, ignorance, bewilderment, infatuation and attachment.
Greed: The enslavement to whims, likes and dislikes is Greed
It is covetousness, avarice, acquisitiveness, a confusion of the mind between necessary necessities and unnecessary “necessities”
Anger: Desire that is frustrated leads in anger.
Attention > Contact > Desire > Unfulfilled > Anger > Delusion
Even if the anger is supposedly justified, so-called “righteous anger”, it must never take the place of calm, discriminating judgment and action
In sum, the principle practical evil that comes long with ego consciousness and its six faults is the increasing compulsion to forget ones Self-the soul-and its expression, manifestation, and requirements; and to become stubbornly inclined to engage oneself in pursuing the insatiable “necessities” of the ego.
References:
1: Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, ‘The Bhagavad Gita – Chpt I Verse 9’
2: Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche, ‘The significance and the benefits of the Six-Syllable Mantra recitation’.
http://www.kmspks.org/download/ebook/Ombk201205.pdf
3: Catechism of the Catholic Church, Para 1866,
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P6D.HTM
Posted by Dhruv Patel 3:06 PM
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