The document discusses the causes and effects of sinful behavior according to ancient Hindu scriptures. It states that contemplating sensory objects leads to attachment, then desire and anger. Anger clouds judgment and destroys intellect, ultimately leading one to ruin. Desire arises from the mode of passion (rajo-guna) within each person. To overcome desire and anger, the scriptures advise controlling the senses, mind and intellect, and realizing one's true nature as the soul rather than the body or mind.

1. WHY DO WE SIN?

2.  BG 3.36: Why is a person impelled
to commit sinful acts, even
unwillingly, as if by force?
8 steps of Personal
Destruction

3. DO WE REALIZE THAT SOME OF OUR HABITS ARE BAD?
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ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंस: सङ्गस्तेषू्जायते |
सङ्गात्सञ्जायते काम: कामात्रोधोऽभिजायते || 62||
dhyāyato viṣhayān puṁsaḥ saṅgas teṣhūpajāyate
saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ kāmāt krodho ’bhijāyate
BG 2.62: While contemplatingon the objects of the senses, one
develops attachment to them. Attachment leads to desire,
and from desire arises anger.

4. … रोधाद्िितत सम्मोह: सम्मोहात्स्मृततविभ्रम: |
स्मृततभ्रुंशाद् बपद्धधनाशो बपद्धधनाशात्रणश्यतत || 63||
krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛiti-vibhramaḥ
smṛiti-bhranśhād buddhi-nāśho buddhi-nāśhāt praṇaśhyati
BG 2.63: Anger leads to clouding of judgment, which
results in bewilderment of the memory. When
the memory is bewildered, the intellect gets
destroyed; and when the intellect is destroyed, one is
ruined.

5. Dhyayanam –
Contemplating
the sense objects
saṅgaḥ—attachment
kāmaḥ—desire
krodhaḥ—anger
sammohaḥ—illusion
Smṛiti vibhramaḥ—
memory bewilderment
buddhi-nāśhaḥ—
destruction of intellect
praṇaśhyati—
one is ruined
8 steps of Personal
Destruction

6. WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
RAJO-
GUNA
 श्रीिगिानपिाच |
काम एष रोध एष रजोगपणसमपद्िि: ||
महाशनो महा्ाप्मा विद्ध्येनभमह िैररणम् || 37||
 śhrī bhagavān uvācha
kāma eṣha krodha eṣha rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ
mahāśhano mahā-pāpmā viddhyenam iha vairiṇam
 BG 3.37: The Supreme Lord said: It is lust alone, which is
born of contact with the mode of passion, and later
transformed into anger.
Know this as the sinful, all-devouring enemy in the world.

7. WHAT IS GUNA
AND WHAT TO DO?

8. SATTVA GUNA

9. RAJO GUNA

10. TAMO GUNA

11. SATTVA GUNA
RAJO GUNA
TAMO GUNA
balance, harmony,
goodness, purity,
universalizing, holistic,
constructive, creative,
building, positive
attitude, luminous,
serenity, being-ness,
peaceful, virtuous
passion, activity,
neither good nor bad
and sometimes either,
self-centeredness,
egoistic,
individualizing, driven,
moving, dynamic
imbalance, disorder,
chaos, anxiety, impure,
destructive, delusion,
negative, dull or
inactive, apathy, inertia
or lethargy, violent,
vicious, ignorant

12.  BG 3.39: The knowledge is covered by lust, which is never satisfied and burns like fire, there
are different degrees of lust according to which GUNA prevails
 BG 3.40: The senses, mind, and intellect are said to be breeding grounds of desire. Through
them, it clouds one’s knowledge and deludes the embodied soul.
 BG 3.41: Therefore, in the very beginning bring the senses under control and slay this enemy
called lust, which is the embodiment of sin and destroys knowledge and realization.
 BG 3.42: The senses are superior to the gross body, and superior to the senses is the mind.
Beyond the mind is the intellect, and even beyond the intellect is the soul.
 BG 3.43: Thus knowing the soul to be superior to the material intellect, O mighty armed Arjun,
subdue the self (senses, mind, and intellect) by the self (strength of the soul), and kill this
formidable enemy called lust.
WELL… AND WHAT TO DO NOW?

13. What to do?
 BG 2.64: raga-dvesha-viyuktah - But one who controls the mind, and is free
from attachment and aversion, even while using the objects of the senses,
attains the Grace of God.
 BG 2.59: param drshtva nivartate - Aspirants may restrain the senses from
their objects of enjoyment, but the taste for the sense objects remains.
However, even this taste ceases for those who realizes the Supreme.
 Also see 3.37-43 kama, krodha (lust and anger) and what to do.
WELL… AND WHAT TO DO NOW?

14. …Have a good luck!!!
 All materials are taken from the ancient
scripture “Bhagavad Gita”.