Given over to
self-conceit, hunger for power, insolence, carnal desire and anger, these malicious ones
hate God in the bodies of others and in their own. XVI-18
Not listening to the inner voice and debasing oneself or
doing injury to others is equivalent to hatred of God, for He abides in the
soul of all
men and, indeed, suffers through them. See also XVII-6, quoted in the chapter p.92.
Any code of life based on the satisfaction of mere desire
leads to destruction. In deciding what is good and right, let men be guided by the
experiences of those who have gone before.
The inheritance of knowledge that good and wise men have
left behind as the result of their search for God and Truth is Shastra. |