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Chamasa Instructs
“People do not perceive that the sole, proper use of wealth is to acquire righteousness, and by righteousness, knowledge and tranquillity. They waste their wealth in selfish and sensual desires and do not see that they are at any time within the grasp of death which hovers all around them.
“In particular actions, the smell of wine is sanctioned. The sacrifice of an animal for the adoration of the deities is sanctioned, but not for satisfying the tongue. There is no sanction in the Sastras to take meat. To visit one’s wife at the Ritu time for the sake of an issue is sanctioned, but not for pleasure; but people do not understand this pure course of their righteous duties.
“The animals which an ignorant, wicked, haughty, proud and impious man slays for satisfying his palate, devour him in hell.
“They hate Lord Hari who is their own Antaryamin or Inner Ruler and Atman in the other bodies. They are attached to their own bodies and the bodies of their children, and others. Therefore they fall into deepest hell.
“Those who have not attained knowledge of the Self and have full faith in Dharma-Artha-Kama only, who believe that the body and its belongings are permanent, annihilate their own Self.
“They indulge in sensual pleasures. Their desires never get appeased. They kill their own self and consider ignorance as wisdom. In time they get disappointed in their desires. Their objects get frustrated and they become miserable when they become unsuccessful.
“Those people who disregard Vaasudeva are snatched away by death in the midst of their desires all of a sudden from their family. They are forced to give up their houses, children, friends and wealth which they accumulated with great pain and trouble. They are reluctantly thrown into the hell of darkness.”
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