Even if someone through perversity or blind conceit has thus far not cultivated good qualities, they can at least make a try to secure them! If this is not done, the excellence of life cannot be tasted; it becomes a waste with no worth at all. The mind, by sheer force of negative impulses, gets lost in false values and is unable to develop along the right lines. Such a mind, turned away from good, might cause indescribable evil. All progress won by the sadhaka (spiritual aspirant) might get destroyed by such a mind in an unguarded instant because of a moment’s negligence! It is like a spark falling on a keg of gunpowder.

- Dhyana Vahini, Chap 4, "Promote the Welfare of All Beings".

Fill the hearts with the light of love so that the evil qualities of hate, greed and conceit find no place therein. - BABA