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Comment - Both greedy and Faithful are civilized and are fond of luxury. However, the former
is greedy, stingy, lustful and cunning while the latter is liberal, generous, devoted and pious.
5.1.1 b Person with Angry Nature and Intelligent Nature
Both types are crude and unbecoming in department. They are usually slipshod and untidy. Both
types like sour, salty, bitter or pungent food. They cannot understand sights and sounds. They
always react with abusive words, hatred, violence, and wrath. Therefore, the anger dominant
person and the intelligent dominant person have common characteristics, which become their
second nature. (until such times as when they begin to reform).Yet they differ vastly in many
respects.
Angry Nature - The anger nature person always shows grudge, revenge, envy, jealousy, slander,
pride and stubbornness.
Intelligent nature – The intelligent nature person is the opposite pole of the angry nature person..
He is free from grudge, jealousy and is amenable to good advice. He does everything with
mindfulness and wisdom. He is quite aware of the coming existences and so is fond of doing
good deeds for fulfillment of perfection.- (paramis).
Comments – An angry nature person is crude in manner, untidy and undisciplined, loves pungent
food and reacts violently to ugly visual forms, and unpleasant sounds. An intelligent nature
person is free from the evils of the anger. He is ready to learn from the wise and is generally
mindful. He is farsighted and fond of virtuous deeds.
5.1.1 c. Person with Deluded Nature and Pondering Nature
Deluded Nature - A deluded nature person is associated with ignorance, delusion and
forgetfulness. He is usually perplexed and confused. He cannot distinguish between right and
wrong, good and bad. He is incapable of making his own judgments, so follows the opinion of
others in denouncing or praising some one. Since he is devoid of mindfulness and wisdom, he
wastes his time by being lazy, indolent and skeptic. He is the victim of sloth and torpor.
Pondering Nature - The Pondering Nature person also lives in the way of uncertainty and
skepticism. He is indolent and incapable of doing moral deeds. He flocks with those of the same
feather. He indulges in useless babbles, speculations and imaginations, so he becomes a useless
person, squandering his time in vain.
Comments - A deluded nature person is generally idle, confused and deluded. He cannot
differentiate vice from virtue and right from wrong. He lacks of power of judgment and is void
of mindfulness and wisdom.. As for pondering nature person he is incapable of doing moral
deeds being very lazy. He talks away his precious times and does nothing substantial.
5.1.2 The Origin of Character - Carita
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