| 63. From wrath
arises delusion ; from delusion, failure of memory ; from failure of memory,
loss of conscience ; from loss of conscience he is utterly ruined.From wrath
arises delusion, a lack of discrimination between right and wrong. Verily,
when a wrathful man gets infatuated, he is led to insult even the Guru.
From infatuation follows failure of memory. Despite the presence of favourable
conditions, no reminiscences arise of things already impressed upon the
mind by the teachings of the sastras and of the teacher (acharya). From
failure of memory follows loss of conscience (buddhi)the inability of the
inner sense (antahkarana) to discriminate between right and wrong (karya
and akarya). By loss of conscience he is utterly ruined. Man is man only
so long as his antahkarana is competent to discriminate between right and
wrong. When it is unable to do so, the man is utterly ruined. Thus, by loss
of conscience (antahkarana, buddhi) he is ruined, he is debarred from attaining
human aspirations.Sensecontrol leads to peace and happiness.The contemplation
of senseobjects has been described as the source of all evil. Now the means
of deliverance (moksha) is described as follows: |
