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Bhagavad Gita - Good and Evil
Identifier
022007
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
So the source of evil is the Intellect – Memory, Desire and Ego combined and the 5 senses
A description of the experience
The Bhagavad Gita [translated by W J Johnson]
So what is it that impels a man to do evil…, even unwillingly, as though compelled to it by force?
The Lord said…
It is desire, it is anger, produced from the constituent of passion, all consuming, all injuring; know that that is the enemy here
As a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror by dust; as an embryo is covered by a sac, this world is enveloped by that
By this perpetual enemy of the wise, by this insatiable fire in the form of desire, knowledge is obscured…
It is said that the senses, the mind and the intelligence are its locality, having obscured a man’s knowledge with these it deludes the embodied self