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more than this. Excess amount of rupees five or more is a theft every day from every labour. This appropriation is not openly reckoned as theft and the thief does gain respect-this is a seperate matter. As such non-stealing means continuous relinquishment of all the forms of theft gross or subtle and continue to make vigrous the vow of non-stealing.
Greed is the main cause in stealing which declines a man, by labour and moral means one cannot amass wealth but only pull on his livlihood. When desires engulf him than he becomes impatient in acquiring many more and more by leaving the way of labour and morality.
This tendency compels him to go to the world of black-marketing and smuggling. In the money-world the ways of earning are more complicated and dreadful. Black-money has superpassed white-money. Opportunities of stealing are available in plenty and temptation in people to make use of these opportunities, is increasing. By this method, the increased income of people inundate them in luxury, and mirth by relinquishing co-operation and sympathy.
A businessman is least interested in plain-way of business but is in search of that ill-method by which he would be a millionaire in a day. Such businessman attracted politicians who wanted to be powerful. Thus, inspite of policy and programme politics largely became money-dependent and the victory in elections remained no more indicator of popularity of the candidates but of money-more correctly of blackmoney.
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