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greed will not affect at all. But what happens to the jiva who has not understood? Look at our perverted intellect! If good instigation comes our way, if reasons that lead us on the path of elevating our soul come our way, we are quick to throw them out, leave alone letting them touch us. We see them off before they arrive. How many are there who would take up the lucky chance to spend time with saints or listen to scriptures, treating them as means to achieve the benefit of the Soul? Very few jivas! On the contrary there are many who reject good means and many who accept bad ones. Thus in the water-wheel of this world - sansar, not a single container remains empty. It fills up, spills, and then fills up again. There is not a moment's respite. As a result the passions do not get diluted.
Atmarthi jiva has subjugated his passions. He has understood the true form of the Self. I am the spirit - animate and the body is inanimate. The entire spread of this material world is inanimate. The spirit will find happiness in spiritual thoughts alone. It cannot seek happiness from the inanimate, and its effects. The most valuable inanimate thing in the world and a recognised status in the society as a result of the effects of Punya, these two can never be the means of my happiness. Hence, within such an atmarthi jiva, there lies no desire or craving or wish other than Moksa.
Ordinary people keep burning in the rage of various desires day in and out. A person believing in the principles of happiness in social appreciation, keeps living in the false feelings of wealth, prestige, status, pride etc., and his spirit, mind, and intellect are always busy in achieving and enhancing all these. The raging fire of desire is so great that anything you add to that gets reduced to ashes. It demands more as you keep adding. There never was a satisfaction and there never can be.
The fire of desire is like the human stomach. How much ever food you send into the stomach, it never is satisfied. In just
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