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अलुमजोये
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A man who abandons himself to greed, is robbed by thieves called worldly objects, is burnt by the fire of last and is besieged all around by the hunters in the form of passions.
74
Hope is called the creeper of sins, pit of misery and source of vices. The waves of hope dash violently in the place where neither the rays of the sun nor those of the moon are able to penetrate.
75 Those who have even partially practised the vow of non-covetousness, are able to check the tides of the ocean of greed which has pervaded the ihree worlds. Such persons though bouseholders deserve to be congratulated.
76
Activity (worldly undertakings involving sins-injury and others) is the root of the tree of worldly existence, and acceptance of property is the cause of this activity. A householder should therefore set a limit to the acqisition of property.
