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20 / MANAV DHARMA more or less than prescribed can be accumulated and such vow is known “Parimit Parigraha" - (Limited possession). But secondly, an ordinary ‘vrati' or ordinary man with this vow can fixed the measure of his worldly possessions according to his own need and desire, or can increase or decrease it as he deems proper and the rest of worldly possession is renounced or abadoned, then this is known as "Ichchha Parimana Vrata" (desire - limiting)
Man is the centre of all those needs which are essential for his livelihood and need gives birth to anxiety or worry. As the needs are being expanded the anxieties also get wide extension. This anxiety is the root cause or basis of making a man perturbed or making him upset badly. This anxiety has been compared with funeral pyre by the elderly people. It has rightly been said :
चिंता चिता समान है, बिन्दु मात्र का भेद । चिता दहे निर्जीव को चिंता जीव समेत ॥
Anxiety or worry is like a funeral pyre in which the dead body is burnt; while anxiety becomes the cause of burning a living being :- Hence to be happy, the need is to be free from all anxieties and to become free from all worries; the important necessity is to decrease our worldly desires. So the wise people and saints have advised to decrease the worldly needs and to adopt satisfaction with what we have. Contentment is liable to make our soul happy and peaceful. In the absence of contentment, inspite of having all worldly possessions and much of wealth, man can not become happy and on the other hand, he goes on feeling the effect of suffereing and sorrows. For example.
A rich man had a business of selling cars of different models. Being busy in this business, he did not get proper time for eating, resting and sleeping and for going here and there. At about twelve or one o'clock night, he used to get free from the business and then he used to come home and being badly tired, after taking meals, he went on to sleep on bed. When such practice of the rich man continued for a very long period, his wife (called sethaniji) deeply thought over the matter and then she told sethji that every kind of comfortable and Luxurious articles were available in their house there was nothing lacking. "Even then-1 (Sethaniji) see that you have no peace of mind, you come hurriedly in the house, take your dinner and being badly tired, you go to sleep. You have no time to talk with the family members about their pains and pleasures. Comparatively our neighbour is far better than us, he earns his livlihood by doing physical labour. He goes to his work at eight in the morning and
