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as possessiveness. In it also, the prominent is meum or infatuation. Possessiveness begets attachment in property and as much deep attachment in life to that extent awakenness vanishes away. This possessiveness is the beguiler of souls, consciousness and still more ruinous is unlimited lust of acquiring more and more property. This lust is the mother of non-alikeness(incongruities). When the greed of a man enhances, he having cast aside all moral scruples, desires by every hook and crook to earn and accumulate wea1th-having bid good bye to all discretion benign intention and moral-ideas, commences the excursions of incongruity. He denounces a real brother to be his brother. For a possession-prone man greed usurps all the positions of brother, father, mother, religion or the God.
In this money-dominated world, the human-sensitivity has been minimised to its extreme level. It is also clear that many persons do not actually possess things in comparison to some who possess a lot. But, the mentality to possess more and more in all-pervading among all the individuals. This mentality in turn, creates disharmony and social-agressiveness. Thus all sections of the society are under the grip of this possessiveness.
But, the end of this tendency is not far off. For there is always a reversion when a situation touches its extreme. Under the present surrounding of de-humanisation, selfishness, insecurity, non-coopration and and unfriendliness the efforts are to be expediated for bringing in the equanimity.
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