AGONISING INNER FLAWS.pptx

MAN IS THE GUEST OF NATURE
-DADA BHAGWAN
(Anger, Proudfulness, Deceitfulness,
Greed)
TheScience ofDADABHAGWAN
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Dada Bhagwan Trimantra
Namo Arihantanam
Namo Siddhanam
Namo Aayriyanam
Namo Uwajjhayanam
Namo loye savv sahunam
Aeso panch namukkaro
Savv pavappanasano
Manglanamcha Savvesim
Padhmam hawai manglam
Aum namo bhagvate Vasudevay
Aum namah Shivay
Jay Sachchidanand.
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Inner Flaws : Anger, Proudfulness,
Deceitfulness, Greed
 The Quad of these Inner flaws are
painful to both - one who hurts others
as well as himself.
 These Inner flaws are a big obstacle
in the path of liberation.
 People live on the basis of anger,
proudfulness greed and deceitfulness.
 Like termite these flaws keep 3
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Inner Flaws : Anger, Proudfulness,
Deceitfulness, Greed
 Anger, proudfulness, deceitfulness and greed impede one’s way to
liberation. Deceitfulness always protects greed. Don’t we find that
some merchants resort to under–weighing or under–measuring their
goods?
 Anger is for defence of one’s proudfulness.
 There are two kinds of these flaws: Controllable and Non–
controllable.
 For example, when you are angry with someone, you suppress it
within and pacify it. This is controllable anger. If one reaches this
stage, his worldly life will be smooth and fine. In non–controllable
anger, all efforts prove futile in suppressing it. Its explosive outburst
can’t be stopped. It proves harmful to the fellow himself and to others,
too.
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ANGER
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 It is difficult to master anger fully.
 Anger expresses itself in two forms: (i) Visible anger
and (ii) invisible anger. The anger that people tend to
overcome is visible anger.
Suppressing ‘visible anger’ results in enhancing
‘invisible anger.’
When people claim, “I have conquered anger”, their
false pride increases.
Anger is like fire. It burns not only oneself but also
others who are around.
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From anger arises delusion. When a
man becomes angry he loses his
power of discrimination between
right and wrong. He will speak and
do anything he likes. He will be
swept away by the impulse of
passion and emotion and will act
irrationally. 6
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krodhad bhavati sammohah sammohat smriti-vibhramah
smriti-bhranshad buddhi-nasho buddhi-nashat pranashyati.
(Bhavadgita 2-63)

 Real anger has the lingering effect of bitterness
aroused from the outburst. Real anger is when the
Self burns. When a person burns from inside he
will feel the heat inside and others around him will
also feel the heat. In both forms of anger(visible as
well as invisible), there remains the lingering
bitterness afterwards.
 For example, a husband and wife quarreled at
night. Anger flares up and both of them stay awake
for the whole night. In the morning, the wife
serves a cup of tea with a bang. Her husband
understands that there is still the lingering
bitterness of anger. This is the anger in real sense.
In Mother’s anger towards her child there is no
lingering effect hence it cannot be construed as 7

When one does not get angry in an
infuriating situation, it is good conduct
or behaviour (shubh-charitra).
Good behaviour improves one’s
worldly life and makes it auspicious.
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Good conduct and Pure conduct

Positive Anger: Parents
and Teachers
 The anger of the mother,
father and teacher towards the
son or disciple comes in the
category of Auspicious anger
(Punyaprakop).
 Their harsh words are not
inspired by negative feelings
but rather aim at reforming the
child / pupils. The purpose of
this anger is also to save the 9

How to win Anger in common situations
If you are standing then sit down, if you are
sitting then stand up.
Drink water or fill your mouth with water.
Write on a paper - I am getting angry.
Whenever anger comes, read it again and
again.
On hearing insult, condemnation, sarcasm,
think this, if I was absent, who would have
replied. Consider yourself absent.
Start the countdown. 18-17-16............Get
away from the environment that gives rise to 10

Pride nourishes Ego
•Didn’t offer a cup of tea ?
• First row, Top in the list !!!
• Expectations in
ceremonies…
• “ I am something” such
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Greed
Of all the inner flaws the lingering effect of greed is
the longest and it is the hardest to get rid of. Greed
means harbouring some desire. A greedy man smiles
even when he is insulted while profiting! Why?
Because the greed in his mind makes him think, “This
fool will shout out angrily and go
away. What do I have to lose? I have already pocketed
fifty rupees.”
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Greed and anger
Seeker: When do greedy people get angry?
Dadaji: In a crisis, when one’s greatest object of
greed slips out of his hand and when one’s
deceitfulness fails to retain it, the greedy fellow would
resort to anger.

Dr. J P Amin’s Drishtant
Result of greed and temptation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcrRxHtXRN4
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Deceitfulness
 The definition of deceit is ‘not saying things
as they are’. Deceitfulness affects all the
three – mind, speech and body. A woman
has more of the atoms of deceitfulness and
infatuation (moha) whereas a man has more
of the atoms of anger and pride.
 If a person pulls and attracts more atoms of
deceit and infatuation (moha) then the next
life cycle could result in a feminine body; and
if the pull of the atoms of anger and pride is
greater, then the next life–cycle could result in
the masculine body.
 Women employ deceitfulness because of 15

The way to get rid of Greed.
 Dada Bhagwan says that the solution to weaken these internal
flaws is that if someone points out or criticizes us for these
faults, accept them and never defend them.
 Another way to weaken one's greed, he has shown, is to
disobey our intellect when it advises us to be greedy and behave
in the opposite way.
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The way to get rid of Greed
 E.g. When the intellect says us to save the hiring cost of rickshaw and better
walk, one should hire a rickshaw or taxi and keep dropping coins on the
road. While doing so the mind will resist but one should ignore its
objections and continue dropping coins on the way !
Then, our mind, which is trying to nourish the inner knot of greed, will get
frustrated and tired.
 By doing such acts to the contrary, the intellect will turn silent and the knot
of greed shall weaken gradually. Through such experiments of acting against
the instinct of greed, the inner conflict will decrease and happiness will
emerge out over a period of time.
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 Dadaji: When does the master take his
disciple, to task? He does this only when he
gets angry. At that time if someone asks,
“Master, why do you take him to task?” The
Master replies “Oh, he deserves all this
firing!” This protection is the nourishment
for anger. To protect one’s flaws is the food
for them.
 A tight–fisted fellow, asks you to buy a
packet of tea for him, and you buy it for 100
Rs.. He asks you why you bought the tea at
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 Now what is the factor that nourishes deceitfulness? Suppose black marketing is in the
blood of some business man and when the talk comes to deceitfulness, he would say,
“Well, under no circumstances we would do business in black market”. He thus tries to
stamp his dishonesty with honesty. This is the food for his deceitfulness. He covered up his
deceitfulness with deceitful talk !
 And what food does proudfulness require? Suppose you happen to see Mr. William on the
way, you say “Hello Sir, how are you?” At that time, William feels elated and pleased and
his ego becomes inflated. Well, this is the food for his proudfulness.
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Nourishment of deceitfulness and pride

How to stop nourishing one’s inner flaws ?
 We have to learn to stop being encouraged
by each of these four.
 If these four are left hungry for three years,
they will not survive. All those defects will not
be under any kind of violence or coercion.
 All these flaws need to be tackled tactfully
and not by overt suppression Otherwise they
will bounce back.
 Everything except the soul survives on
nourishment, so come on, let us give cold
welcome to anger, pridefulness, greed and
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Self Enlightening Dictums of Dada Bhagwan
• 324. Who makes you see the offenders? It is your own anger, pride, greed and
deceit as adversaries. How did these material passions creep in you? It is when you
believe ‘I am so and so’. The moment this belief goes apart everything departs.
• 434. All these ‘attachment-hatred-anger-pride-deceit-greed’ are painful. Hence
these are called ‘kaṣāya’ (painful passions).
• 435. In influence of kaṣāya (painful passions) only, the established self remains in
misery and restlessness.
• 440. To the extent one is relieved from ‘passions’ (anger, pride, deceit, greed), there
is corresponding increase in meditative actions. Total freedom from these ‘passions’
means perfected meditation.
• 578. The greatest violence in the world takes place because of kaṣāyas of anger and
pride, greed and deceit.

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Next : Sufferings
By : Ms. Shaila Mulji USA
On 25 Mar.2023

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