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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
What affliction does a greedy person not bear? What action does he not do? One, whose eyes are blinded by the knife of greed, does not scruple to launch his parents and relations into calamity. ( 69 )
Notes:- Generally wealth is reckoned as a great blessing in this world. So people wanting in true spiritual light undergo unreasonable difficulties in the pursuit of money. They commit all sorts of wicked acts and they deal in falsehood and all kinds of unfair ways making the attainment of wealth an allabsorbing game. They travel through forests, mountains and caves and journey on vast ocean, undergoing all kinds of excruciating pains and troubles caused by hunger, thirst, heat and cold. They ruthlessly do heinous acts amounting to murders, even of friends and relations, without any compunction being entrapped in the sordid lust of gold and glory, even though they have sufficient means to live upon in the manner befitting their character and rank. Many instances are known of ambitious persons killing even their parents for the sake of high power and authority, and of parents offering their children in prostitution and also offering them as sacrifices out of the irresistible thirst for gold. So greed is the destructive poison for all sublime virtues. People generally do not try to realise the fleeting and transitory nature of property, wealth, glory, authority and all worldly fascinating objects, and hence they are doomed to fall into apparently charming pitfalls.
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