"Extreme Possessiveness Is The Root Cause Of Many Sins..."

                                     To reduce possessions...


SHRIMADJI said...


A living being having no limit to its possessions, is not happy. 


Whatever such a greedy person acquires, he desires to get more than it and in his burning desire to get more and more, he is unable to enjoy fully what he already has acquired, and sometimes he loses what he has already got. 


By such greed, his mind remains always unsatisfied and it becomes unstable and he indulges in sinful activities to satisfy his greed. 


In case, by accident he loses his life in the craze for getting more possessions, then it becomes the cause of his downfall. 


The best of monks can absolutely abandon all acquisitions or possessions, but even householders can fix up a limit of their possessions, according to their real needs. 


By fixing a limit, one does not try to keep with him more than what he requires within his limits; and this way, he develops a sense of satisfaction in what he has already acquired and he becomes free from a mad desire to get more and more of what he has with him. 


Thus he passes his time happily. 


It is a strange nature of wealth that when one has it, his desire to get more grows and thus his greed increases day by day. 


Rarely a man even possessed of some religious knowledge and firmly believing in leading a religious good life, can free himself from the fetters of greed, and his inclinations get stuck up in this greed.


Those who did not put a limit to greed, have been found to have suffered harm immensely.Thus greed or extreme  possessiveness is the root cause of many sins.


It may be called the father of sins.


Its nature is to obstruct eleven vows.


Therefore one who works for the uplift of his own soul, should at all cost abandon greed and behave putting limit to his acquisitions or possessions.


In short one should live with the satisfaction of his minimum needs... 


SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA(Mokshmala lesson 25)