(202) That you plead not compulsion, and so err (like Iblis). How long will you climb into that tree of compulsion? How long cast out of sight your own freewill? How long, like Iblis and his evil crew, Throw the blame of your own sins upon God? How were you compelled to sin when you took such pleasure And pride in engaging in those sins? Does a man feel such pleasure in acting on compulsion As he exhibits when committing wrong actions? You battle like twenty men against those

(37) O nobly-born, although one liketh it not, nevertheless, being pursued from behind by karmic tormenting furies, one feeleth compelled involuntarily to go on; [and with] tormenting furies in the front, and life-cutters as a vanguard leading one, and darkness and karmic tornadoes, and noises and snow and rain and terrifying hail-storms and whirlwinds of icy blasts occurring, there will arise the thought of fleeing from them.