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The beaurocracy followed the same way by giving a free hand to anti-social elements for money-minting. People liked to earn by stealing and spending. Under these circumstances, those who are laborious and morality-abiders they remain hungry and uncomfortable. If equality and equanimity are to spread in the society, then, these hard-rocks of money-dominence are to be exploded.
In the present money-orient age the vow of nonstealing carries big importance. Whether it may be a theft from a labourer or Evasion of Government taxes, all the thefts should be more or less deemed abominable. The effect of non-stealing vow should be that all people in the world should earn lawfully and whatever they earn, it should be the product of their pure endeavours (labour) This labour should also be beneficial to the society. Labour-earned livelihood of an individual will spread morality, purity and equanimity in the life of an individual as also in the society.
Celibacy: If deeply pondered, all the problems of the world can be summarised in two problems. They are (1) Bread (food) problem and (2) Sex-problem, Sex means lewdness. In every living being, ordinarily in addition to food, sleep, fear, the tendency to cohabit has been recognised as the eternal propensity born of Karma Nature. The world order is sustained by this cohabitation also. Lewdness is the cause of procreation and lust and by procreation runs the order of world.
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