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MANAV DHARMA / 95
Description :
The man who abandons himself from all undertakings, rendering service, cultivation, trade and commerce and other occupations, the basic causes of Himsa, he is called Aarambha tyagi. A man does work so that he may get comfort both in present and in future, without any difficulty. But common people generally do not think about future, they only think about the present. They take food when they are hungry, drink water when thirsty and remove the cold by wearing proper clothes. But if some thing wrong occurs here in their management or they fail to get the food and clothing properly, they are likely to enter in the pratice of stealing, in the fulfilment of their needs. No doubt, they are fully aware that in doing such a wrong, they are liable to face many problems and difficulties; but they are compelled to do so in the fulfilment of their present needs. That is why every man is expected to maintain some source of earning so that he may not be compelled to adopt undesirable means for ones livelihood. Some are involved in serving the elderly people, some in agriculture and some adopt trade and commerce and every body tries hard to keep his profession in tact, so that they may not be forced to adopt illegal and unwanted means for livelihood.
Suppose a man is involved in the service of another man. His main duty is to keep pleased his own master. He always cares for his master's pleasure and does not want to see him angry in any situation. If master becomes angry, then the service of the servant will be in danger and that may ultimately create the problem of livelihood for his family. With this mental pressure, he is compelled to say a right thing as wrong and vice versa and thus he fails to protect his own spirit of speaking the truth. If a man does cultivation, then he puts a fencing of thorns around his agricultural land to protect the crop and that fencing may cause troubles to passersby. A man who is involved in trade and commerce has very narrow minded thinking. He accumulates when there is a shortage of a particular commodity and disposes it when the prices are high. Not only this when he needs to purchase, he waits for lower rates. He never pays attention towards the problem a comman man has to face in this process of his trading practice. He always desires that the sale of his commodity must go up or there should be more and more customers at his shop - they should not go to other shops. Keeping in view all such practices, when we minutely and deeply ponder over this matter, we conclude that whatever may be business, trade, service cultivation etc. all these sources of income develop a feeling of narrow mindedness, the basis of which can be Himsa-viloence, but the man who is leading a family life, cannot survive without involving him
