Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
person who owns his supremacy, no matter
whether that person be noble-minded or base, so
wealth which is attained by any person who flies to
it for refuge tends, however serviceable it may be,
to the condemnation of the spiritually wise, and
hence is base. Who is there in this world whose
mind does not thaw like ice at the sight of wealth
or whirl in the maelstrom of wealth which
embitters the happiness arising from the
quintessence of the sweet discourse of the
spiritually wise through the venom of love, hatred,
etc., created in such worldly men by the manifold
evil effects of wealth. Like a ruby that gets blurred
with a coating of dust, all persons whether they are
beneficial to their relatives or not, whether they are
intelligent or poor or warlike succumb to this
desire and are degraded. It is rare to find blameless
opulent men, word-keeping warriors or kings who
look equally upon all their subjects. This wealth
which the mind covets and is very ephemeral in its
nature is utterly useless like a flower- bud in a
creeper growing in a well and encircled by a
serpent.‟
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