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The Bhagavad Gita1482
meaneth Freedom—the other Bondage. Feareth not, Arjuna, for thou hast
the Good Character and Destiny, and Freedom shall be thine.
“There are two kinds of Natures observable among human beings in the
world—the Good Nature and the Evil Nature. The characteristics of the
Good Nature have been spoken of. Listeneth thou now, O Arjuna, to a
recital of the characteristics of the Evil Nature.
“Those who possess the Evil Nature, O Prince, knoweth not what it is to
perform Right Action, and to refrain from performing Wrong Action. Nor is
Purity, Morality or Veracity to be found in them. They lack Faith and in their
folly would believe that the universe hath no creator, but is in itself without
beginning or end, and is its own cause. They deny the existence of Law or
Truth in the universe. And they deny the existence of Spirit. They believe
in Materialism, in Godlessness, and they hold that Lust is the moving and
operating cause of all things, bringing about mutual union and reproduction.
“And, believing these evil and foolish things, these men of imperfect
understanding, with this conception fixed in their minds, devote themselves
to evil deeds and sow in the world the seeds of Evil Thought and Error. They
live for Carnal Enjoyment, teaching this as the highest good. They strive
after gratification of sensual appetites, and the creation of new appetites—
and there is no peace or satisfaction in them, for appetite springeth from
appetite, and the sensual craving groweth more acute in the measure
in which it is gratified. Such men are hypocrites, and full of madness and
intoxication.
“Because of their folly and false reasoning, they invent new doctrines and
theories, and give themselves to the material life of sensual enjoyment. They
live and die in their delusions, holding to the error that in the gratification of
the sensual nature alone is satisfaction and happiness to be found. Believing
that death endeth all for them, they would fill their days of life full to the
brim with sense gratification and the performance of the behests of an
abnormal and perverted sensuality. Desire is their God, and its worship and
service their only religion.