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Anger is favourable to the enemy. It brings grief to the person (who gets angery) and to his relatives. Anger results in the defeat of the person (who in angry) and ultimately results in his destruction.
कोधो सत्तुगुणकरो, णीयाणं अप्पणो मण्णुकरो । परिभवकरो सवासे, रोसो णासेदि णरमवसं ॥
kodho sattuguņakaro, niyāņam appaņo ya maŋŋkujari. paribhavakaro savāse, roso nāsedi naramavasam, - Bha, Ārā. 1365
Just as a spark of fire destroys the year-long accumulated stock of grains so also the fire of anger destroys all the divine qualities of a monk.
जध करिसयस्स धण्णं वरिसेण समज्जिदं खलं पत्तं ।
डहदि फुलिंगो दित्तो तध कोहग्गी समणसारं ॥ jadha karisayassa dhaņņam varuseņa samajjidas. khalam pattaṁ. dahadi phulimgo ditto tadha kohaggi samaņasāram. - Bha, Ārā. 1367
There is also one another trouble with this world that we are unable to objectively decide our necessities. In this world neither one is happy with one's possessions nor any country is satisfied with it's immense wealth. Economical inequality and undue hoarding and accumulation of essential goods in few hands is distrupting for the social life. It is due to this greed that one man exploits the other and enclave him. The society suffers for this greediness of some of its members. So it is said in Jaina texts that one must keep only that much that is essential and give away the rest to the society at large. This essentially is the attitude of non-possessive spirit of charity. In the Bhagavatī Ārādhanā is also said that peace, harmony and tension free life can be gained through non-possessiveness, contentment and restaint only. We should control on our greed passion.
Under the influence of greed, a man fails to discriminate between good and evil and indulges in theft without caring even for the his own life.
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