2.FROM DEATH TO WEALTH:-

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Wealth:-


Last slokam deals with uncertainty of life  and  unexpected death. Here in the second slokam Acharya stress on wealth.


O fool! give up the thirst to possess wealth. Create in your mind, devoid of passions, thoughts of the Reality. With whatever you get (as reward of the past), entertain  your mind (be content).

 

Acharya  Sankara   here indicates how we must live in the world. His advice to us is to live joyously in contentment and satisfaction with what we would get 'as a result of our karma (action).' There is no limit to human imaginations. An individual who has given reins to it can never stop at any conceivable point. Desires multiply, the more we satisfy them. The more the desires are satisfied, the more seems to be the hunger, and the deeper gnaws into our peace a sense of tragic dissatisfaction.

 

Desire for wealth degrades man. Attachment brings endless worries. There is strain in acquiring. There is struggle to preserve intelligently what one has acquired. There  is pain when one comes to lose what one had acquired laboriously. There is anxiety  to preserve what one has already gained: this is a game of restless sorrow only.

"Man is never satisfied with hie possessions alone"! (Kathopanisad)

"the deathless and  the imperishable can never be hoped to be gained through possession of wealth." ( Vivekacudamani)

"Renounce and enjoy, covet not others wealth." ( Isavasyopanisad)

[to be contd]

 
 

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