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If you eat only one thing, even then there is no problem. He does not have any other intense greed lalacha. If he has intense greed lalacha for just one thing, even then there is no problem, at least he will be preoccupied with just one thing. But avaricious people are tempted by anything and everything. So he has to create a safe-side for him wherever thieving tendencies of intense greed lalacha creep in. Intense greed lalacha is very poisonous. There is no problem if intense greed lalacha is limited to only one thing.
Covetous people take on a liability
Questioner: Is it one extreme intense greed lalacha that traps him?
Dadashri: Yes, that is what happens. If he has an important date at the court and he is tempted by something, he will not show up at the court; by doing this he makes his problems worse.
Questioner: Such a person is considered very irresponsible.
Dadashri: Leave alone being irresponsible but he is taking on a lot of liabilities. He remains undaunted because of his intense greed lalacha and so he takes on tremendous liability.
An covetous person is always seeking pleasure
But an covetous person lalachoo is the owner of every port. His ship will stop at every port. And the rule is that a merchant will always find customers.
Questioner: But that is what he is looking for, is he not?
Dadashri: No, not because he is looking for it, but that is the law. Because when you take some medicine, where does it go? It goes where there is a problem. How does the medicine you take through your mouth go to where the problem is? That is the law; it is attracted there. So what am I saying? Pain attracts the medicine; it is not the medicine that traps the pain. So it is pain that attracts the medicine. You may not be able to find your medicine anywhere in the stores but along comes your acquaintance saying, 'I could not find this medicine anywere. I found just this one bottle. The