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Q. Why? Can’t money cause your upbringing? Your house,
business, family – all works on the support of money. Isn’t
your temporary body useful? How else would you exercise
your worldly duties?
Ans. That’s true. But the money benefited your treasury and

your family and the body proved useful to the outside world.
Where is your spiritual well-being here?

Q. It gave us happiness, too.
Ans. Does that mean all your sorrows are now eliminated? Is

there no pain or misery, worry or anxiety now?

Q. That is bound to be there. It is the nature of this
ephemeral world. What is there to be scared of?
Ans. But do you have deep faith on this ephemeral world?
You feed a dog a biscuit and give him 4 kicks in return. How

will the dog react? He will still be affectionate towards you
because you gave him the biscuit, right? Because that is the
peculiarity of the dog species – in spite of being kicked, if
they are given a biscuit, they will over-affectionately lick the
person.

Examine yourselves

Inspite of being kicked innumerable times by worry, sorrow,
fear, dejection, adversity, disrespect in this ephemeral world,
you achieve a little, temporary biscuit-like happiness and you
shower all your attachment and affection towards it. How
will you consider yourselves and your species? That of
intelligent humans or ignorant dogs?

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