Story Book

SR No.: 007663
Original Sutra Author: Shrimad Rajchandra
Author: Dinubhai M Patel
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Total Pages: 67
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Rajchandra
File Size: 20 MB

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Mokshmala - Lesson-48. Kapilmuni Part-II
But basically bound with only light Karmas so he gradually returned from this stage of greed and began to think in a different way. Well good man ! Why
should you be so much ungreatful to take up the whole kingdom of the king and make him depraved who was kind enough to reward you as much as desired ? Really speaking it is only my own sense of depravity in doing so. Therefore I should demand for only half of his kingdom.
But no, I do not want even such botheration of ruling half kingdom and then where is the limit of botheration in becoming millionairs also. Therefore at persent I should ask for only one or two hundred coins instead of ten millions. Oh good man ! Even one or two hundred coins will lead me to sense pleasures and force me to miss my scriptural studies, therefore I should ask for five coins only, Oh ! At persent I do not need even five coins so I should ask for only two coins for which I had come here.
It is now clear enough that I was deeply drowned in the ocean of greed. What wonder ? The greed which was not satisfied with even asking for the whole kingdom is satisfied with only a feeling of contentment and sense of discrimination.
Had the king been an Emperor then what more I would have asked for and if I would have not obtained more than King's empire then how would my greed had been satisfied and unless my greed have been satisfied how would I have been felt happy. If my greed is not satisfied by even empire then how can it be satisfied by two coins?
Thus Kapil took right viewpoint and said to himself, 'I do not want even two coins, Oh ! From two coins my greed ascended to whole kingdom. Real happiness lies in only contentment and never in greed. Greed is the seed of the tree of whole worldly life. O Soul ! Why do you require it? You came here for learning and instead you fell in love, from that love you were brought to this king suspecting you as a thief; from there you were asked for requesting the king to give you some wealth to relieve you from your immediate poverty and from there you rose on the ladder of endless greed and now you descend to demanding or asking for nothing by rising on the ladder of contentment.
In this worldly life one falls from one difficulty to another having no end to such wandering. It is therefore quite meet for a wise man to abandon worldly life based on greed and attachment and enjoy invaluable happiness and peace in a life of non-attachment and infinite contentment.
In this way by quelling greed many of Kapil's layers of ignorance were torn asunder and his heart became full of joy and mind full of discrimination. Thus he could think of his highest self with best knowledge and rising on the ladder of knowledge he is said to have attained absolute knowledge.
How lowly is greed ! Philosophers and all knowing persons say that greed is endless like the endless sky. It never grows old, it remains always young and energetic. Once one desire is satisfied it develops the other and thus without end it goes on. Therefore contentment is the beneficial tree of unending happiness and it completely satisfies the essential requirements of mind and body.
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