Is it need or greed?

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We all are participant of a race. Blind participant! With no specific destination, no specific judge and no specific rules. We all are running behind some kind of desire of ours to accumulate the same as much as possible and we have created importance of that in our mind. Some of us are running behind power, some for position, some for money, some for sensual pleasure, some for material pleasure and also for the knowledge. Chances of getting satisfied are negligible as there is no judge sitting to say, “Now it is enough”. The more we accumulate, the more we feel it to be less. We have no defined quantity of piling up.

Gathering things is natural and can be observed in every living organism. Different creature accumulates things of their basic need for their bad days. But our accumulation is not related to need rather it is related to greed. In spite of having sufficient for our need our hunger of accumulation does not die.

There has been spiritual philosophy dating back centuries which teaches that utilization of material things is good but accumulation is evil. Hence, according to this thinking, if one really wants to be spiritual, one should divest himself from any type of material possession. In Jain teaching this possession of things are strictly prohibited as it develop some amount of attachment to the possessed thing. Even Jain practitioners do not stay at one particular place for long. Attachment from spiritual point of view is considered to be hurdle on the path of enlightenment. But whenever spirituality has discussed some kind of problem, in the next line it has discussed solution to eliminate the problem.

How to get rid from this evil nature? A spiritual story suggests the best possible way. This story is an incident happened with a traveler and Sufi saint Rabbi. Story says that,

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