दारिद्रयनाशनं दानं शीलं दुर्गतिनाशनम्।
अज्ञानतानाशिनी प्रज्ञा भावना भयनाशिनी ।।
Daariddrayahaashanam Daanam Sheelam Durgatinaashanam |
Agyaantaanaashinee Praygyaa Bhaavaanaa Bhayanaashinee ||
Charity destroys poverty; right conduct destroys distress; truth bearing wisdom destroys ignorance and the (resolute) feeling destroys fear.
Poverty means lack of resources and charity means giving help to others, which obviously gives the impression that the person has enough¬ for one doles out elms only when one has enough of everything. And when people learn that you are gifting things, they develop confidence in your financial worth and you start getting things on credit.
Thus, your stock increases and soon you get rid of that poverty. If one can maintain one’s balance, even in the severe distress, behave normally with total caution, the panic element in the distress vanishes. The same is true with other two observations. If one searches for the true knowledge, how can ignorance survive in one’s thinking.
And lastly, the sense of fear is based totally on your mental projection of a situation. In the dark, a tree might give impression of a ghost but if you have strong will you may go near the tree and see it to be nothing but a tree. That stage you can achieve even by mere feeling.
Fear is the projected perception of a given situation which is not dependent upon the external factors. In fact, all the four observations are rooted in the psychological aspect of the human behavior.
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