Any time I suffer, experience disappointment, worry or anxiety, it is due to the effect of any one of these negative influences. I forget the heights of spiritual attainment and the delights of supersensuous joy. Thinking myself to be a body, I search for peace and happiness through the sense organs. I mistakenly pursue worldly pleasures in an effort to regain my former state. I forget my true identity, my true nature, my original home and my Supreme Father.
People afflicted by anger tend to lose their temper and become excited at the slightest provocation.
What holds good for anger applies to all the other vices which are at the root of all emotional disturbances, strains, tensions and imbalances suffered by the soul. When the soul is freed from the control of these five vices, it attains its five original attributes of knowledge, purity, peace, love and bliss. They are my basic attributes. It is worthless seeking them externally. It is just like the musk deer running after the sweet smell of musk, unaware that it is coming from its own navel.