Book Title: Lotus Bloom
Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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________________ Off the Roots Just as nails overgrown, if not clipped off at proper time, look shabby, drawing dirt into them and becoming conducive to infection, even so, if wealth amassed is not utilized, it degrades man in society engenders corruption, and leads to distress and disease. Besides, as an overgrown nail caught in something is lopped off at times from its root, so doth a hoarder of wealth sometimes lose his entire capital! And all that is left for him in essence, is nothing but distress dire! Jealousy Two persons being of equal calibre, when one of them succeeds because of his adequacy, whereas the other fails owing to his inadequacy in some sphere, -if the latter in this juxtaposition rather than striving to discover his error, starts envying his opposite, his jealousy becomes only an emblem of his ingrained inadequacy, his innate inefficiency! 93

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