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above despite having the means. His family and friends may enjoy the benefit of his prosperity while he can only sit back and watch.
He would have to depend upon a salaried servant for the smallest of movements he might need to make and not his loving wife because she, as the mistress of the house, is only concerned with the wealth that she can enjoy and the entertainment she can derive out of it. Tea, milk or sweet lime juice would be the only things he could digest and that too fed to him by a servant spoon by spoon. Therefore, after losing health, your wealth is as good as lost. That is why one says that a person who has lost health has lost something.
If a person loses good character, it is neither got back in this life nor in the lives to come. If the soul is inspired again, develops deep concentration of the mind to cultivate his virtuous qualities and makes a corresponding, continuous and excessive effort in that direction, then only can he attain it back. For most people thousands of births go by, even an infinite time may pass before this is possible. Therefore, it is said that if good character is lost everything is lost. If a soul has lost its virtuous character, it means that he has fallen prey to bad character. Till it frees itself from its captivity, the soul abounds in immoral behaviour and bad qualities. The effect of this is a bondage of karmas to the soul which are extremely difficult to get rid of, resulting in misfortune. In every birth, one is deprived of both health and wealth.
The most apt example of this is that from the life of Agnisharma. In his past, he was harassed terribly
