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available a variety of consumable objects that
the man has gone mad after them, thus
making his own life miserable. The valuable
human life is finished in the worldly pursuits.
Knowledge of Gita guides you that if you want
to be happy, content and calm, do not look at
the things themselves; rather how much of
them you actually need. You will be saved
from confusions, problems and agonies.
The third condition of money is waste.
The money, neither donated nor consumed,
goes down the drain. The greedy man suffers
a fall from grace within himself. Such a man
does not deserve to be a devotee of God.
Temptation and greed defile the man's
intellect. The qualities of heart, as truth,
knowledge, discretion, righteousness, morality
lose their vigour. On account of greed and
lust, he himself is disturbed, insatiated, unquiet
and sad and also puts others in the same
condition. The miserly person lives a life of