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5.
Non-Possession
Mahavira & Code of Conduct / 157
It is very difficult to satisfy the desires of an avaricious
man.
Wealth, movable and immovable possessions and other domestic articles cannot relieve a person from bondage caused by one's own karmas.
One should reflect thus, "One day I have to abandon all wealth and property, treasures and fortunes, relatives and friends and even this body and to depart from this world."
A person who knows that wealth and relatives are incapable of protecting him and that life is ephemeral, librates himself from karmic bondage.
A noble house holder is one who remains satisfied by earning reasonable profits.
A noble house holder does not buy valuable goods on much below their cost price and does not take possessions of lost properties.
Wealth cannot protect an imprudent person in this world and the next.
A person who is deluded, cannot tread the right path. Rash and foolish one takes for granted himself as imperishable and tries to earn more and more wealth. Ignorant person who earn money through evil deeds, leave all the wealth here and go to hell.
Wealth is cause of misery, the fetter of egoism and the source of many dangers.
