Life is a campaign against foes,
it is a battle with obstacles,
temptations, hardships, hesitations.
These foes are within man and so,
the battle has to be incessant and perpetual.
Like the virus that thrives on the bloodstream,
the vices of lust, greed, hate, malice, pride
and envy sap the energy and faith of man and
reduce him to untimely fall.
Raavana had scholarship, strength, wealth,
power, authority, the Grace of God---
but the virus of lust and pride which
lodged in his mind brought about his destruction,
despite all his attainments.
He could not dwell in peace
and joy for a moment after the virus started work.
Virtue is strength, vice is weakness.
divinely sent
