TEMPTATIONS
‘Temptations’ are not good. They are bad because they are
like desires to do something wrong or unwise.
The result of getting tempted is dangerous. Eve and Adam were
tempted by the devil in heaven as a result of which they were expelled from
there and placed in this world where humanity is always in some sort of anxiety.
To regain heaven is a hard task. It depends upon a long
period of virtuous deeds and adoption of the moral route that leads to
salvation.
It is regrettable that we try to tempt each other. Offering
of temptations is equivalent to seduction, allurement and inducement. Nowadays
we find such examples in the political persuasions at election times. Electors are
inspired to prefer temptations to ideologies. In this respect, temptation is
the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.
Great leaders, at all times, have laid emphasis on good means
for good ends. They did not accept the policy of achieving success by hook or
crook. For them, the best policy is fair ends with fair means.
According to the English writer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) To
resist temptation once is not a sufficient proof of honesty. If a servant,
indeed, were to resist the continued temptation of silver lying in a window,
when he is sure his master does not know how much there is of it, he would give
a strong proof of honesty. But this is a proof to which you have no right to
put a man. You know there is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome
any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an
injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
The English poet-dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
says: It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Finally, this quote : A moral temptation is a decision about
right versus wrong and is based clearly on the core values that each person
possesses.
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G.R.Kanwal
25 January
2025
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