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When the wealth was divided between the Pandavas and Kauravas, jealousy and greed crept in Duryodhana's mind, "Why do my cousins have mansions of gold? All they had was a small kingdom. How have they progressed so much while my kingdom continues to remain as it is, without expanding even by an inch!"
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Those who have not mastered the art of expanding their wealth and property resort to cunning manipulations and thievery. "Let me seize my brother's property and make it mine", they think. But this is not right, it is perverted thinking. Even if a person has a genuine need he should not resort to such actions.
A man who has no clothes steals from another to clothe himself. Is this a solution to poverty? No! Because although he has clothed himself, he has stripped another.
A naked man cannot make another naked by stealing his clothes nor can a hungry man steal another's bread. So the wise option is to innovate methods to multiply resources. After all, in a world where the population is ever-increasing, if innovations in production are not implemented, how will the problem of haves and have-nots be solved?
Unfortunately, in India, not much attention is paid to production. Conflicts are never dealt with, always brushed aside under the carpet, and therefore, the vision of the self as part of a larger canvas is never created.
But imagine! If you learn that your life is made by none other than yourself, then you will learn the mantra of growth. You will then automatically transform the wealth that you have amassed into the larger resource pool, be it of the family, society or nation.
Since Duryodhana neither knew the art of production, nor endeavored to learn it, he was caught in the web of possessiveness from where arose gambling, injustice and torture. And what a nemesis it reached! He seized the kingdom of his brothers through
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