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We have a tradition of keeping a limit on wealth that can be held, a limit on the volume of food that we can partake daily, and a limit on other products that we can use like clothes etc. Greed for wealth and conspicuous consumption can definitely be kept under control with this. This practice is called
Aparigrah' in Jainism. But besides that can we not consider it as a prior preparation to manage yourself gracefully during a sudden financial crisis?
We have given the act of swadhyay, learning and understanding scriptures and reading of good books, the status of internal penance. From that you can understand it's significance. When you are bed-ridden and you cannot perform any other ritual, reading good books and learning scriptures is one such remedy which enables a man to retain his composure. As such, swadhyay is a pre-preparation to enable you to stay mentally healthy.
Every act of the path shown by Dharma is for upliftment of your soul on the path to spiritual progress and enabling you in progressing quickly towards your endeavours for achieving self-realisation. In that sense, practice of religion is a spiritual management course.
On the other hand, due to temperament or karma, due to destiny, or on account of prevalent times or because of illintentioned efforts, if any adverse circumstances are created, how do you keep your mental balance ? How will you stop the damage to the pillar of equanimity on which depends upliftment of soul. The damage is taken care of by all these spiritual practices with a new approach. In this way, if you see, the prevalence of dharma provides in it's true sense an amazing crisis management course.
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