Anger-pride-deceit-greed; they are the ones giving you pain and only they are your enemies. There is no other enemy out there. There is only a nimit (evidentiary doer) outside. Wrong vision makes you accuse the nimit. When you attain the right belief (samkit), know that you have found the solution. Dada Bhagwan
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The three enemies that we experience in our lives are anger, pride and deceit. An enemy is an outside party that we feel is responsible for something harmful that we feel we have experienced. When we experience pain, we believe there must be an outside force to blame. Our first instinct is to blame something or someone else.

This is not usually the case. The real causes of our suffering are inside us, not outside of us. The first step to changing this is to recognize what is really happening. When we see a pain as a part of a larger pattern, we can begin to change it.

We can begin with recognizing the cause of the pain instead of the effects. If I am suffering from a headache, I know what will make it go away: rest and relaxation. This might seem obvious but most people do not think in these terms when they are suffering from a painful emotion such as anger, pride or deceit.

In order to fix the problem, we must first recognize what the problem is and then identify the solution. In this quote from Ramana Maharshi, he points out that pride and deceit are simply different forms of anger. It is just a matter of recognizing the difference between them and treating them differently.

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