Sinful behaviour causes agitation in the mind. Just as ripples ruin any reflection in the water, vacillation of the mind by thought makes it impervious to illumination. Even ordinary pursuits demand some kind of concentration involving the colinearity of the object, sensory organ, mind and intellect. The manifestation and animation of the objective world is the direct outcome of the fluctuating mind. The mind under the sway of the world hallucination is said to be 'away' from the Self. To have one's moorings in the world while aspiring for the Self defeats the very purpose. Only the hero who cares not an iota for the object is said to be qualified or equipped to sing the duet with the non-dual Subject. *Source:* Shri Ribhu Gita (2.69), translated by Dr Lingeswara Rao and Dr Anil Sharma