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HINDU ETHICS |
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The Ramakrishna
Mission has made a beginning in this direction but we require many such missions in the
country. Just as all virtues are grouped under the five cardinal virtues, so all sins are grouped
under the three deadly sins of Kama, Krodha and
Lobha-lust, hate and greed. Sometimes
three more sins are added to this list-Moha or delusion,
Mada or pride and
Matsarya
or
malice.
For, according to them, on evil thought or a harsh word is such of the nature of sin as a wicked deed. This threefold division shows the refinement of the Hindu sages, who would not excuse even a harsh or an obscene word, though it has no evil intention behind it and though it does not result in any bad deed. But all these divisions are rather artificial. There is only one sin, though its forms are numberless. And that is self centred desire, which runs counter to the spiritual law of the universe. Sin on the moral plane corresponds to disease on the physical plane, error on the intellectual plane and ajnana on the spiritual plane. Man in his ajnana or blindness thinks that he is a separate self with interests of his own apart from those of the other beings in the universe. |
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