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The Puranas state that in the world of Jagannath, both the stationary and the mobile are revered. Just as the sun is worshipped during the winter solstice, the wealthy are always honored. (15)
Now I know that you are the same, not someone else. But here, wealth is worshipped, not you, O Padma! (159)
O Dev! People always respect the wealthy, and they abandon those who are poor, whose friendship has lost its purpose. (160)
Those who have wealth have friends, those who have wealth have relatives, those who have wealth are men in the world, and those who have wealth are wise. (161)
A man without wealth has no friend, no brother. But the same man, with wealth, becomes a relative to others. (162)
Wealth is that which is combined with Dharma, Dharma is that which is combined with compassion, and pure compassion is that which does not consume meat. (163)
Those who abstain from eating meat, all living beings, are praised for their renunciation, as it is rooted in other virtues. (164)
O King! This human world is strange, no one knows people like me. (165)
Let it be, you are worshipped by those like me. Even the virtuous suffer defeat from fools. (166)
Do you not know that there was once a Sanatkumara, a Chakravarti, whose form was seen by the gods who possessed great powers? But he too attained liberation by becoming a muni. Skilled in the knowledge of the scriptures, the muni wandered, but he did not receive alms anywhere. (167-168)
Then, in the city of Vijayapur, a woman who lived on the produce of trees, satisfied him with food and he attained the fivefold glory of wealth. (169)
Subhumi, whose arms were adorned with armlets, became a Chakravarti and extended his hand, adorned with rings, for alms. But no one gave him even a single grain, knowing that he was poor. So it is right. (170)
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