Aptavani 09

SR No.: 007513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 515
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 8 MB

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or many?
Dadashri: There is no problem if there were just one kind. Then it is called greed of one kind.
Questioner: But the intense greed you are talking about is that of one
kind?
Dadashri: No there are all kinds of intense greed lalach. People want to extract happiness from wherever they can.
Questioner: Is it an illusionary happiness?
Dadashri: Yes, that is it. What else? There is no limit toit. It is fine if there is intense greed lalach for only sex. Then it is considered greed lobh. Then he would not have intense greed lalach for anything else, would he? No. But a person with intense greed lalach will have all kinds of intense greed lalach; he will be so in all matters.
Gluttonous greed for pleasure: makes one miss the goal of
liberation
If you show a piece of poori—fried Indian flatbread to a dog, he will forget his entire family. He will forget everyone, his puppies, territory where he lives, the general vicinity of his residence, will all be forgotten and he will stray far from his location. He is wagging his tail from the intense greed lalach of the addictive greedy craving-lalacha for a single poori! I am a strong opponent of such lalacha-addictive avarice. When I see this in people, I am amazed, what kind of greed! This is open poison! One should eat what comes in front, but such addictive greed must not exist.
Questioner: One's needs are satisfied without having to resort to such covetousness.
Dadashri: Therefore, the trouble is for only the covetous people. Otherwise everything is available right at home. I do not have any desire for anything and yet I get everything. There is no desire for anything let alone any avarice.
Questioner: What is the difference between avarice and desire?