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wonderful. But most often than not, persons who save never share and if and when they share it is a insignificant portion of what they saved. The point to note is, it is not the freedom from want of material resources as such that needs to be addressed but our attachment to the material resource that has to be got rid off. That is real freedom as we understand in spirituality.
Our land has given many systems of realisation called darsanas. It is true the word darsana has been translated as a system of philosophy. Arm chair philosophy is the prerogative of the Occident! We are practical and have yoked our mind and body to achieve realisation from times immemorial. Moksha or freedom from wishes has been our aim. All our darsanas spoke of that only though they gave different methods of realisation. There were Aasthika darsanas and there were Naasthika darsanas- those that believed in Vedas and those that did not- yet all spoke of Mukti as the goal. In our system also our prayer refers to our being slaves of wishes and our aim to become free from them and be Masters. It is attachment to materials that may or may not be wanted that is to be classified as wishes. Are
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