{"id":39443,"date":"2022-05-23T03:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=39443"},"modified":"2022-05-22T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T01:01:05","slug":"six-poisons-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/six-poisons-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Poisons of the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">K\u0101ma &#8211; self-referent desires (solipsism) which priorities one\u2019s one desires and ignores the needs or wants of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Krodha &#8211; anger &#8211; a primitive and destructive reaction to frustrated desires and hopes and expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Moha &#8211; self-delusion and self-aggrandisement, thinking oneself and one\u2019s desires to be more important and worthy than anyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Mada &#8211; arrogance &#8211; hubris, a sense of pathological self-esteem and an inability to be gracious, admit fault and to compromise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Lobha &#8211; greed or selfishness &#8211; the desire to retain all resources and surpluses for oneself without sharing with others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">M\u0101tsarya &#8211; malicious envy of what others have or aspire to. It is of three kinds (1) envy of those that have what one has, (2) envy of those that have more or better than oneself and (3) envy of those who are not suffering to the same degree as oneself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; K\u0101ma &#8211; self-referent desires (solipsism) which priorities one\u2019s one desires and ignores the needs or wants of others. Krodha &#8211; anger &#8211; a primitive and destructive reaction to frustrated desires and hopes and expectations. Moha &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/six-poisons-of-the-mind\/\" aria-label=\"Six Poisons of the mind\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":37011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-db"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 10:55:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}