The heart of human personality is conditioned by three essential but delusory factors – ‘ignorance’ (avidyā), ‘desire’ (kāma) and ‘work’ (karma). The spiritual ‘ignorance’ of our real nature causes us to feel, in ourselves a sense of imperfection and the suggestions that the intellect gives to complete this sense of imperfection are called ‘desires’. The intellectual desires breed agitations in the mind, which express as vigorous ‘activities’ at the body level (karma). All these three – ignorance, desire and work – limit us, curtail our freedom, shackle us to pits of sorrow and pain, all
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