Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Dada Bhagwan
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"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this? -Swami Vivekananda. The answer to the question, where is the fault of the nature in all this" is that it occurs in our own minds. It is all a matter of thought.

Like a wave in water, it isn't the subject which causes trouble, but the mind which sees it. A bird flying above can see nothing wrong with itself except for its own need to fly.

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