Hindu Medicine c7.190

c7.190

The assault of the host of diseases on King Jīva, now that he has become fortified by divine drugs, can succeed only if the king becomes estranged, on the one hand, from Lady Loving Devotion and, on the other, from his chancellor, Worldly Intelligence. The Six Evil Passions, therefore, have sneaked into his realm to cause disturbance; they are called Lust (kāma), Greed (lobha), Wrath (krodha), Hypocrisy (dambha), Envy (matsara) and Madness (mada). But Discernment (vicāra), the king’s chief of police, detects them in spite of their clever disguise and has them rounded up by his policemen. Envy alone is released to vex the enemy and to tell him that his trick has failed.