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* You have to know when you should earn money and when you should spend it. Understanding the propriety is also a matter of great importance.
* One should possess an incisive intelligence to examine the propriety of time. One should possess a sharp intelligence.
*There is a difference between expenditure and useful expenditure.
*Saving money is not miserliness.
*If fools acquire wealth many vices appear in them. Sinfulness has become a fashion among such people. *If you do not have the ability to examine the propriety of time for any action, seek the guidance of those who possess that ability.
*The man who knows the propriety of time finds a way out of his difficulties and misfortunes.
*We can hear about some wealthy people who were whimsical and crazy; and who squandered away all their wealth on their whimsical fancies and pleasures and who did not possess even the small amount necessary to buy a shroud to cover their dead bodies when they died.
* Careful expenditure within limits or economy is a virtue found in noble householders.
DISCOURSE 84
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar. Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji, while expounding the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in his magnificent work, Dharmabindu describes the twenty ninth ordinary principle, "art" (the awareness of the propriety of time). The propriety of time means refraining from certain actions which are not to be carried out at a certain time and carrying out actions when the time is congenial for them. The author expounds this principle with a special reference to the
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