If he had tried to develop humility, this aggressive compensation will never be necessitated. The fault would be readily accepted and the lesson learnt. Neither having the humility nor the intellectual honesty to admit one's own error, he adopts this pervert method. Now it will he clear how this analysis of 'compensation' though purely psychological yet throws much light upon the inner neglect and defect in the very build-up of his spiritual life. It reveals the lack of the very elements of ethics in him.
Ethics is the very basis of spiritual life.
Therefore, in handling such cases, much tact, delicacy and understanding insight become necessary. How to deal exactly with them is a very difficult matter and depends to a great extent upon the peculiar circumstances and the particular person concerned. If the senses are the 'fire', then the objects may be called the fuel. A little careful reflection will show that actually the senses are not the real 'fire'. The above analogy has to be pushed one more step inward into the next circle of the being's five-circled field of individualised consciousness.