Discipline of Actions v/s Fate
Assent / सहमति(Consent)
Assent translates which means ‘approve’, ‘agree’, or ‘go along with’. Thus, when we assent to an impression, we are committing ourselves to it as a correct representation of how things are, and are saying, ‘Yes, this is how it is.’ The Discipline of Assent, then, is an exercise applied to our impressions in which we interpret and judge them in order to move from having the impression of something or other, to a declaration that such-and-such is the case.
What we must avoid, then, is adding to our impressions immediately and without proper evaluation any opinion that something good or bad is at hand. For the only thing that is good are moral good values, and the only harm that anyone can come to is to engage in affairs motivated by secondary intention.