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he has no money. But when he gets ninety-nine rupees, greed
enters when he wants to turn his savings into an even hundred
by adding a rupee. He thinks that he will not spend anything
towards the household today and add one more rupee to this
balance. This is called the ‘shove of ninety-nine’! When a person
gets this shove his greed will not be contained even when his
hundred rupees turn into five million. This greed only breaks
when a Gnani jolts him!
From the moment he wakes up, a greedy person keeps
practicing his greed; his entire day is spent consumed in greed.
The vegetables are too expensive, he will say. His greed manifests
even when he needs a hair cut; its only been twenty-one days
since my last hair cut, it will not matter if I wait till the month
is over. Do you understand? His tuber of greed keeps showing
him such cues for saving money and he thus keeps perpetuating
his kashayas. Of all the inner enemies, greed and deceit are
very difficult to get rid of.
A greedy person will not spend whatever little change he
has in his pocket. He will not spend to travel in a rickshaw even
though he has difficulty walking. I told such a person not to do
this. I told him to start spending ten rupees at a time for rickshaw
rides. He told me that he is not able to spend that way; he
cannot even enjoy his meals in peace when he has to part with
his money. He told me that he knew feeling this way was very
wrong but what could he do, he was helpless. His prakruti, his
nature was holding him back, so I told him that he should take
some loose change with him and drop a little at a time on the
road as he is walking along. He did this one-day and then he
stopped.
If a person were to do this a few times over, his mind
would realize that it no longer has any control and the person