Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 34- Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================== =============================================================== Friday, May 13, 2022. 19:30. Discourse 44: The Sixteenth Chapter Begins – Divine and Undivine Qualities : POST-34. =============================================================== Pāruṣyam is cruelty, a cruel nature. We feel very happy at the suffering of other people. Even if we do not actually commit an act of cruelty, we would like it to be committed by somebody else. Or if we ourselves do it, it is still better. This is called a sadistic attitude. Masochism is feeling pleasure in our own suffering, and sadism is feeling pleasure by causing suffering to others. So we should be neither a sadist nor a masochist. Pāruṣyam is cruelty. Let this quality not be in us. Ajñānaṁ means ignorance, which is the basis of all topsy-turvy perception of things and wrong evaluation of the world—a lack of spiritual knowledge. One who is born with these qualit...