Guest guest Posted June 30, 2008 Report Share Posted June 30, 2008 Life Without Flaws and Vices It is avail to all to have a life without any vices and flaws at all, but to have a life that is entirely full of vices and flaws is not ever possible for anyone. Being a part of God, man (Embodied Soul, Self) is free of all vices, faults. Flaws (faults, vices) are temporary and they come due to association with that which is perishable. When a spiritual aspirant observes the vices with a critical eye and is saddened by them and is no longer able to bare those vices, then thereafter those vices or flaws cannot remain. God's grace immediately destroys those vices. All vices / flaws that are there, arise from giving importance to perishable things. To cheat is a fault, but being cheated is not. By seeing divinity (bhagavad bhava) in everyone, all agitations of the mind are destroyed. With contentment and satisfaction, all three vices (desires, anger and greed) are destroyed. Vices (faults) have no independent existence. Having some limitations in virtuousness is known as vice, and that lack of virtue arises by giving existence and importance and authority to the unreal (that which is temporary and on its way out). All agitations of the mind, only happen in the one who sees himself as the body. There are no modifications in the immutable Self. The root cause of all vices is only one, from which all flaws / vices are born and that is - attachment with the world. Similarly, the root of all virtues is only one, by which all divine qualities are born, and that is - relation with God (Supreme Consciousness, Divinity, Truth). Due to greed, that which is essential is not received, and that which is received in not used properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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