Attitude of Egoistic and Lusty People

The most successful man in the competitive world is the one who lives in constant thinking of what he has already acquired and remembers  and sweats for his day to day ambitions to acquire and possess more and more of the wealth of the world. And the laughable paradox in the philosophy of possession is that the more one has,the more one feels (craves)for.when one gets drunk with the excessive (vanity) of possession.One's shameless cry is only,I have this much ,and this wealth shall also be mine''. The game of desires is an endless gamble .The more one possesses the  more one is tempted to strive to possess more.Each time a man strives to acquire something ,his desire is to feel his full share of satisfaction.But, invariably,his experience is that he is not fully satisfied and in his disappointments,he thirsts more and more possessions.The following description gives the attitude of such people for the world of fellow beings.

All the businessmen in the world , unknown to themselves , constantly chant in their heart of heart .I destroyed one competitor in the market ,and now I must destroy the remaining competitors also ...in fact ,what can those poor men do to stop me from doing what I want? Because there is no one equal to me in any respect...I am the lord. I enjoy,I am the most influential and successful man .I am strong in influence,among political leaders ,in my business connections and in my bank balance.I am strong and healthy...This is ,in short,the ego's song of success that is ever hummed in the heart of a true materialist .Under the spell of this satanic lullaby (children's songs),the higher instincts and diviner urges in man go into a sleep of intoxication.The intellectual attitude of a materialist about himself is that he is deluded by misconception of himself.Such a man looks at the world through a mind distorted by vanity(excessively),and wrongly judges the world and his own relationship with it.He feels happy and congratulates himself on his high birth and breed ,on his belongings and wealth,and fails to find anyone equal to him.Self exiled from the society,he leaves in a false castle of vanity ,suffering innumerable psychological privations.He gloats(pleasure) that he wil,by his ritualism ,even order the gods to serve him that he shall,with his gifts ,purchase the whole world and thus glorified by the world ,served by the gods."I shall rejoice in the world ...Such are of the maddest ravings(incoherent) of his restless heart,in the dark deapth of his utter ignorance.

Summarizing the characteristics of egocentric and lusting people,when an individual who has thus sold himself to sense-indulgence,spends his time seeking gratification from the world of object ,his mind becomes ever unsteady.The mind of an indulgent sensualist soon learns to empty its powers of concentration and exhausts itself in its own hallucinations,fancies and imaginations .If the individual's mind,as a result of its false philosophy,gets dissipated in shameless dreams,his intellect also is in a sad condition.His power of judgement and discrimination is caught up in a web of delusions and false values .His intellect cut off from its permanent moorings (chains) has thereafter no platform of its own to spring from and come to correct judgement and evaluation of life.It fails to recognize the permanent harmony of life,but recognizes only its own ego-centric vanities (excessive belief).Life looked at through such a disturbed equipment naturally gives a distorted view.

When an individual's intellect is clouded ,his mind gets agitated and his sense-organs ,which are the vehicles through which the mind -intellect has to express itself,certainly behave erratically ,when a driver is drunk ,the car cannot move properly, Naturally, therefore ,such an individual becomes a victim of lust and sense gratifications .we need not be great philosophers to understand that such an individual ,tired  physically ,confused mentally and upset intellectually will live here in a self created hell, disturbing his own personality-contents of woes to others around him .A man can make a heaven of hell and hell from heaven by the harmony or discord in himself .A subjectiviely shattered personality cannot find peace or fulfillment in any situation.Even if the environments are conducive,he discovers,in himself, methods of unsettling them in his own sufferings.If a single individual,who has these false values ,discovers for himself but a sad world of sorrow even in the midst of happy surroundings,we can very well understand what would be the condition of the world when a good majority of us are having,in varying degrees,the above qualities ,Hell and heaven are determined by the amount of discord or harmony that we successfully bring about in our inner makeup.