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virtuous? The reason for that is otherwise God gets affected. Who is that God?, The peace that we have in our heart, the calm that is within. Anything that we do which is against the norms upsets the calm and peace within us. Whether we ignore that upsetting attitude or we accept it and try to solve that problem the fact remains whenever we do something that is not good for us, there is an upsetting of peace or calm. We know what happens to the heart when we do not follow restrictions on diet etc. We normally do not see such an importance when we violate spiritual injunctions. In spirituality what happens is that when you do something that is not correct, automatically the heart, gives a signal that something is wrong or in other words the Divinity in us starts telling that something is wrong. We can definitely keep it down. That is what we call conscience. Many people have recognized it as the voice of God. The conscience protests. We are all aware of it but we try to lull it saying “O. K it’s all right. We cannot help this”.' That means, it is just like a diabetic patient who goes on eating sweets. Many of us are of this category. Just as a diabetic who cannot resist eating sweets, so also a person who has got this ‘asuric pravrtti’ tends to do something evil or saying
‘what can I do, this is how every body behaves. I shall 322