Golden Steps To Salvation

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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were they not stolen ?" The curious fact is, jealousy makes in-laws out-laws.
Once a certain man was crushing roses with a mortar and pestle. A philosopher asked them, "Why are you being punished thus ?"
One rose gave this reply, "Brother! the world is very jealous. People do not like to see our smiling faces; so they torture us like this but when we were alive we gave our fragrance to people. Even now we are giving fragrance to this man who is crushing us heartlessly. In future also when we assume the form of a scent, we will give fragrance to people."
There is a proverb in Hindi, "The master gives away his wealth in charity but the treasurer grieves over it in polity." When the master himself is giving away his wealth in charity, why should the treasurer feel unhappy about it? Why should he think that it is not proper? The reason is his jealousy. There is a Rajasthani proverb, "The anguish of others is light but the happiness of others is a blight." It is evident that this is the effect cf jealousy. Moral teachers have enumerated four types of unhappy people of whom jealous people are the first.
goat quit caugœ:, muaì fazusifna: 1 परभाग्यं, पजीवीच, षडेते दुःखभागिनः ॥
Irshyo ghrini tvasantushtaḥ
Parabhagyopajivicha
- महाभारतम् ५ / १०५६
Krodhano nitya shankitaḥ
Shadete dukhabhaginaḥ
-Mahabharatham
"Jealous people, resentful people, dissatisfied people, angry people, suspicious people and parasitical peoplethese are the six kinds of people who are always unhappy."
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There was a saithji. Two scholars came to his house one day. Each was proud of his scholarship. The saithji