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".