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Chapter 16
Appendix:—In the order in which men are endowed with the demoniac nature, in the same order light of discrimination disappears. When men endowed with the demoniac nature adhere to pleasures, they can't know what they ought to do and what they ought not to do. Their nistha (faith) is not even worldly, then no question arises of its being unworldly. Their nistha paves the way to hells.
The men endowed with demoniac nature look upon the maintenance of their life-breath as the highest goal. Therefore they think only of their own happiness, comforts and self-interest.
They are inclined to perform those activities which provide them comfort and happiness and they don't do any activity which may provide them pain and which do not serve their self-interest. In fact the scripture is the authority in determining what ought to be done and what ought not to be done[1]. But because of deep attachment with their bodies and life-breaths, the men possessing the demoniac nature, don't obey the injunction of the scripture, in what ought to be done and what ought not to be done. Because of their demoniac nature they don't listen to the gospel of the scripture and even if they listen to it, they can't understand it- `yatanto'pyakrthtmano nainam pahyantya cetasah'[2].
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