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A house-holder, who obeserves this fifth vow of voluntarily limiting his possessions, follows the golden rules of Socialism. The willing curtailment of one's desire for amassing or accumulating worldly paraphernalia would lead to social and national progress and also to individual and collective happiness in the real sense of the term. Society at present suffers far more from waste of money, than from want of money.
Extravagance is the pervading aim of contemporary society. Worldly success is wrongly measured by the accumulation of wealth. Such an accumulation has become the passion of the age. If we fail to read the coming events and fail to voluntarily curtail our selfish instinct for the accumulation of vast wealth, the inevitable consequence will be social and economic revolution involving bloodshed and violence.
The non-observance of this fifth vow of limiting one's possessions is the cause of the intervention of law and force. The principle of limited possessions is extremely significant and valuable to present world conditions. The observance of this voluntary limitation to one's own property and income would surely lead to securing complete economic stability in society. The social order based upon this principle of limited possession will certainly prevent the unnecessary accumulation of misery, poverty, wretchedness among many in society. The economic conflict will be automatically solved by adjustments in matters of wealth, health and prosperity. It will be a welfare socieiy based on sound economic foundations.
The present world order based upon a scramble for
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