The True Man
The three main causes of evil in this world are:
(1) Gratification of our animal passions and desires.
(2) The evil of the intermediate worlds (which the average person knows little about).
(3) Lack of devotion to Truth (the perfect attribute of God).
In Yoga teaching the causes of evil must be sought in the self-created universe where dwells the “I am.” Long has humanity sought to explain the why of evil by objective analysis. But the cause of a thing is not within the thing, and the cause of the underworld is to be found neither in the crime, nor in the underworld. Until man, the son of Manu, the Thinker, by contact with the Lord God of Truth within, has come to understand the cause of his affliction and sufferings, he can neither avoid, nor profit by them. The Dayspring of Youth, by M
Our own experience should be our education and not that gained from others.
We will often be asked, “What does this aspiration mean?” The answer is simply this: “To be one with the Innermost and obey it.”