Why is it critical to never give in to the smallest of temptations to take up unrighteousness? Bhagawan explains and cautions us today.

Dharma is now just a convenient excuse to derive benefits from others, not an opportunity to fulfil your duties to others! You remind others of it when you desire to squeeze some advantage from them. You must remember not only the rights that Dharma confers but also the duties it imposes. The temptation to ignore Dharma grows from egoism and acceptance of false values. The wish to satisfy lower desires is the root of Adharma (unrighteousness). This wish takes hold of you slyly, silently, like a thief at night; or like a comrade to come save you, or like a servant come to attend on you or, like a counsellor come to warn you! Oh, wickedness has a thousand tricks to capture your heart! You must be ever alert against the temptations. The wish makes a chink in your consciousness, enters and establishes itself and then multiplies its brood and eats into the personality you have built up with laborious care. Then, the fort is no longer under your control. You have been reduced into a puppet manipulated by your own inner enemies!