Now usually what we do is we go from one imperfection to another imperfection. If someone is greedy, you are angry about their greediness. "Well, that person is greedy, why that person is greedy?" but you are not less than that. You are not bringing the purity in you but you are changing the flavor of impurity. Are you getting what I am saying? Change of distortion does not bring perfection. But normally, everybody does this, they just change the distortion. Lust becomes anger, anger becomes jealousy or greed or arrogance or delusion. We are just moving from one imperfection to another imperfection in that case. Is that clear? At all costs, save the mind and how we deal with that mind, is to see that every action is happening according to some laws. So when you look into different actions, you find imperfections but done let those imperfections enter into your heart, your Being. (You become angry.) You know, most of the people who fight for rights, human rights, feminine rights...you are fighting for rights but inside you, you are all messed up, you are angry, then your anger is no better than lust, its worse than lust. Jealousy is worse than anger, its not better than anger. All these imperfections, six imperfections, you think one is better than the other? Its not, do you see what I am saying? And sadhana is to maintain that and not to be shaken by small little events, another event here, and another event there.
If someone scolds you or scorns you or their speech is imperfect, don't see that their feelings are also imperfect. Don't see intention behind other people's mistakes, you see what I am saying? When you see intention behind other people's mistakes, then the mind is reeling again in more impurity. Replacing one impurity by another impurity does not make anything pure or better, it makes it worse. Does it make sense?
So that's why Vikara, Vikara means distortions. ..Prakriti and Vikruti, the whole creation is made up of nature and distortion of nature. Anger is not our nature; it is distortion of our nature. Jealousy is not our nature, it is distortion of our nature. Why we call these as impure, you know? Why anger, jealousy, greed, lust are impure, why? They are all there in nature, isn't it? You tease a dog, how angry it gets. You tease a child, how angry it becomes. Lust is there in nature. Everything is coming out of lust. Everyone is born out of lust. Desires are there... this is a part of creation. But why do we call it distortion, why are they called impure? Why?
Because they do not allow the Self to shine forth. Sin is that which does not bring the spirit within to shine forth fully. Are you getting it? Anything you do, if it dampens the Self to shine forth, dampens the sincerity that we talked about yesterday, the Nature of Self to shine forth, then that we call sin. Sin is not in your nature, you are not born out of sin. Sin is just the wrinkles in the cloth. It needs proper ironing, straightening it all out.
Why lust is a sin? You know why lust is a sin? Because in lust, you do not consider the other person as life, you do not honour the life. You use them as an object, you make them an object of your enjoyment, so you are somewhere overshadowing or not looking at the Self in the other person. This is the only reason why lust is impure. Love is the reverse of lust. In love, you see the other person as Divine. In love, you surrender, you see the other as higher. To elevate the matter to the level of the spirit. An idol you worship, it is a stone, it is a matter, but when you are worshipping it, it has become no more just an idol, statue or a picture, it has become the living Reality. You have given life to it. You elevate it to the level of God, love, moving towards perfection.
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