Speaking of the Ramayana, you will notice that there are little incidents, centred round two minor characters, which sparked off the entire epic: the resentment of Manthara and lust of Surpanakha – Krodha and Kama. In the Jivita Ramayana, the life-epic of each of you. Beware of these two, krodha (anger) and kama (desire); a tiny spark of each is enough to destroy peace and joy. Weed them out, before destroy you. The manonasana (extinction of the mind) – with all its like and dislikes, Then, like the faggots on which the corpse is cremated, in the process of cremation, the corpse as well as the faggots both become ashes. Sensory activity is the warp as well as the woof of the mind; when that ceases, the mind vanishes. It starves and dies. (SSS Vol. 6, pp. 56-57)