Yes, vice and vile conduct
is another cause of ill-health.
Do not seek to listen to vile and vicious stories.
This tendency reveals a diseased mind.
What is heard is imprinted like
a carbon copy through the ear, on the heart.
One injures oneself through indulgence in this evil habit.
People believe that
a wicked person need not
be a diseased person,
but most diseases are mental illness, fundamentally.
Polluted air and water
are full of maleficent viruses and germs
and have to be avoided at all costs.
There are four pollutions
against which man has to be vigilant -
of the body, removable by water;
of the mind, removable by truthfulness;
of reason, removable by correct knowledge,
and of the self, removable by yearning for God.
divinely sent
