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all that is desirable, to his own and to the world, only as long as he is not
sufficiently hardened by wealth, like water by the cold blast.
Yogavasishtha.
Misery attends the acquisition of wealth, and misery attends the protection
of wealth acquired, there is misery in its coming, there is misery in its going;—
oh! fie upon wealth, the abode of misery out and out.
Panchatantra.
There is no hope of immortality through wealth, and all it may accomplish of
good or religion.
Brhadaranyakopanishad.
All growing ends in fading, all rising ends in falling, all meeting ends in
parting;—such indeed is the law of this world.
Yogavasishtha.
Oh Yajnavalkya! what would your worship mean to the All? which is beyond
hunger and thirst, beyond sorrow and illusion, beyond decay and death?
It is this Self knowing which, Brahmans, renouncing all contact with world,
wealth and wife, go about as religious mendicants.
Brhadaranyakopanishad,
Objects of desire, even though they should abide long, are sure to depart.
What difference does it make in the parting, though men do not part from
them of their own accord? This is the answer: If they depart of themselves,
they leave immeasurable mental suffering behind; if you part from them
they confer on you the endless bliss of self-restraint.
Vairagyasataka.