1. Evil exists, and there is no shirking the fact that each is responsible for the evil anywhere in the world, but there is nothing that is absolutely evil; darkness is less light, evil is less good, impurity is less purity.
2. The cause of evil is our desire to be superior to others and our selfishness; force against force never cures, and the only cure for evil is unselfishness.
3. This "me and mine" is the very root of all the evil in the world, and the evils that are in the world are caused by none else but ourselves.
4. Every reaction in the form of hatred or evil is so much loss to the mind; in doing evil we injure ourselves and others also.
5. Every evil thought or deed of hatred or any thought of reaction, if it is controlled, will be laid in our favour.