Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 =================================================================== ===================================================================== Monday, August 15, 2022. 06:15.  Chapter 13: The Positivity and the Negativity of Experience - 6. ======================================================================= Desire, anger and greed are the sources of trouble in this world: kāmaḥ krodhas tathā lobhas.  Intense longing for a thing is kama: "It is impossible to exist without it. I want it, and I want it in any way." This kind of unquenchable thirst or longing for things is kama.  And if any obstruction comes in the way of the fulfilment of your desire, you are angry at the source of that obstruction. You want to see the end of it. This is krodha.  Therefore, kama and krodha are dual factors operating as a single force of longing. One is longing per se, as it is in itself; the other is the longing itself acting in a different way against that which is derogatory to t...