In this stage, there is no dislike of the truth or any
vacillating or doubt about the truth when it is presented. The person also
does not get angry in the most intense degree to feel that he could never
forgive or be amiable to the object of his anger. There is the right
attitude of mind; but there is lack of control over the less intense
degrees of anger and over the other passions under class 4 of energies;
also lack of control of the sense pleasures.
Persons in this stage know the value of self-control;
some make the effort, but through weakness fail to practice it; and some
do not make the effort. But they all appreciate the value of self-control.
With regard to which of the foreign energies are or may
be generated in this stage and the causes which are or may be operative,
the first cause or impelling force does not operate, and so the most
undesirable kinds of these foreign energies are not generated in this
stage, such as the somnambulistic state, or sleep states of the intensity
where the person or animal is asleep while walking, or where he rolls to
and fro while a sleep, standing or sitting, in which states the senses do
not work and the first stage of knowledge is prevented. (In clairvoyance
or psychic knowledge, as it has been called, the clairvoyance is
experienced while the five senses are awake, and not while in sleep of
trance.)
Intense dislike of the truth is not generated in this
fourth stage of development; nor is the worst degree of an anger, pride,
deceitfulness or greed, nor are the neuter and feminine sex passions
generated in this stage. Nor is hell or animal existence generated; nor an
unsymmetrical body; an ungainly walk; an unmusical voice; nor
unpopularity.
However, we may generate, in this fourth stage, forces
which obscure knowledge; also forces which cause pleasure and pain, the
less intense anger, etc., prejudice, grief, fear, male-formed body,
musical voice, popularity, etc., life in social surroundings not low; also
we are in this stage liable to generate forces which make us morally weak,
mean, unable to make profit, to enjoy good things, though amongst them, or
to do some good actions which we might wish to do.
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