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this is my mother, this my father, my brother, my sister, my wife, my son, my daughter, my daughter-in-law, my friend, my kith and kin, various kinds of utensils and means of transactions, food and clothing. He thus lives the life of the
non-vigilant. Bhāsyam Sutra 2
The sensual objects stimulate the rise of greed. Only on the rise of greed there arises the attitude of likes and dislikes for the sensual objects. Thus, the person hankering after the sense, due to his acute pining, that is, desire for enjoyment, is infatuated with many an object of possession.
The pining is generated by the sense of 'mine'-ness. This truth is expressed in this Sūtra. The people with the sense of mine'-ness in respect of their relations like mother, and many varieties of things get stuck to them and are entangled in the world, infatuated with the possessions. 2.3 aho ya rão ya paritappamāne, kālākāla-samutthāi, samjogatthi
atthālobhi, ālumpe sahasakkāre, viņivitthacitte ettha satthe punopuno. Pining day and night, he exerts timely and untimely, hankering for acquisitions, greedy for worldly things addicted to theft and robbery; with mind fixed on family and sensual gratification, he is virtually a weapon of violence to living
beings, time and again. Bhagyam Sutra 3
A person under the sway of greed always lives with pangs of suffering in word; thought and deed for the sake of his relatives and the acquisition and protection of his property. He keeps himself engaged in accumulating wealth like Mammana (an example of unsatisfied desires) at all times, proper or improper. He longs for the acquisition of agreeable objects and royal fortunes. Greedy of wealth, he perpetrates thefts and all kinds of heinous deeds without any thought of the consequences and thus generates great evil. His mind is fixed on his family and property. Such person time and again acts as a deadly weapon to all kinds of living beings. 2.4 appam ca khalu āum ihamegesim māņavānam, tam jahā — soya
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