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Verse 16
safeguarding anything, violence, mental or physical, is bound to result. Under such an environment, mutual trust, goodwill, and fellow-feeling, cease to exist. By entertaining such emotions in our minds we not only make our present unpleasant and distressing but also make our future liable to suffer from the same kinds of feelings due to the influx of karmas.
The man who, in spite of possessing great self-esteem, a magnificent body, and noble virtues, loses his composure and independence for the sake of money is like the majestic elephant which has been tamed for use as a carrier. As per an old dictum, virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. It is futile to try to turn around the sequence of this flowchart. Let virtue be your priority; health, goodwill, status, and, most importantly, joyous feelings will follow. There is no point soiling your happiness in pursuit of something that you must ultimately leave in a flash.
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