How to Eradicate Vices -  Swami Sivananda

Affectation Dambha

Affectation is a striving after or an attempt to assume, what is not natural or real. It is pretence.

Affectation is to make a show or pretence of, to assume, to counterfeit, or pretend to.

Affectation is a studied or ostentatious pretence. It is artificial, false or shallow display. It is artificiality of manner or behavior.

Affectation is an attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real. It is false pretence, artificial appearance or show.

Affectation proceeds either from vanity or hypocrisy. Vanity puts on false characters to gain applause. Hypocrisy conceals vices under the appearance of their opposite virtues, in order to avoid censure.

Affectation proceeds from the supposition of possessing something better than what the rest of the world possesses.

© `How to Cultivate Virtues and Eradicate Vices’ by Swami Sivananda, published (1998) by The Divine Life Society, Shivanandanagar 249 192, Tehri-Garhwal District, Uttar Pradesh, Himalayas. Reprinted with permission.

<<Back