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THE FOUR SETUS |
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He desires wealth
and material comforts for the sake of service and charity to his fellowbeings and for
fulfilment of his religious duties. Married life is desired only for the sake of progeny
and long life is wished for the practice of spirituality. Similarly, Kalidasa in the
Raghuvamsa, describing the greatness of the Kings of Raghu line says, that they acquired
wealth for the sake of giving and courted the pleasures of married life only for the sake
of progeny.
The great Indian lady moralist Auvvai says: Dharma consists in the making of gifts; wealth
should be acquired without doing evil; kama is pure love and regard subsisting between the
two life-partners who are of one mind; moksha is renunciation of all the preceding three
purusharthas by thinking upon the Supreme. In the fourth Adhyaya of the Manu Smriti, it is
laid down that every individual may earn his livelihood only by acts which are not
reprehensible and not opposed to Dharma, and which do not entail much suffering.
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