Vanity and struggle with him. Furious teaching and modern practice. Comp. Maslennikov S.M.

Many people in the world like to do good deeds in order to experience a pleasant sense of complacency, and some are doing them, for praise human, then pleasantness is even stronger, the sweet poison of vanity is even more “concentrated”. Also, we, Christians, if we fulfill the commandments of Christ and do not eliminate the emerging complacency, then not only do not be saved, but on the contrary, we destroy ourselves, developing the passion of vanity. The feeling of pleasantness arising inside should be condemned as a sin and repent in it.

Based on the creations of the Holy Fathers and simple examples from modern life, the reader is proposed to find in himself the most hidden of all the passions-painful souls and learn to fight it.