One becomes subject to all the characteristics of that nature which one imbibes. Accordingly, of him who has ignorance for his refuge, the passions of envy, lust, anger, pride, falsehood, and vanity, continually grow, for one's qualities have one's nature for their root.
यो यथाप्रकृतिर्जन्तुः प्रकृतेः स्याद् वशानुगः। तस्य द्वेषश्च कामश्च क्रोधो दम्भोऽनृतं मदः। नित्यमेवाभिवर्तन्ते गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाः॥