In Catholicism, there is an understanding that they call original sin, it’s an understanding that man, when he comes into this world, is in a fallen state and the only way he can arise from this fallen state is through the grace of God.
In Bawa’s explanation, we are all born with karma, arrogance, and illusion. Karma is the imprinting on us, in the embryo, of the faults of our parents. Maya is the illusory state that we exist in because of its permanent nature in our belief system that it is not a permanent nature. And arrogance is what comes out of karma, and maya, and the belief in the self; that the self can, and the self will, and the self must. Well, from that comes; desire, deceit, and an infatuation with things, a maliciousness and a constant attempt to separate ourselves out of the rest of humanity…
