"seven virtues and seven sins"
an interesting way, perhaps, of looking at the seven pairs, is regarding them as 'seven potentially damaging ailments,' and their opposites as 'potentially freeing remedies.' what is, while
one's essence/soul/atma is not sinful,
when one's mind, attention, or consciousness becomes
strongly preoccupied or overcome with the seven leftmost items
that is, when these ideas are quite strongly manifest in one's life
then this may indicate that one is not loving oneself or others,
well. a strong consciousness of (or preoccupation with) the seven
leftmost items might be damaging to one's sense of self worth, body,
and relationships (i.e. one's ability to seek and receive love from
others in a positive, healthful, mutually beneficial or un-damaging
way). |