Passage 21

In English

The lay down four goals before man: (righteousness), (wealth), (desire) and (liberation). Since the first and the last are difficult to attain without detachment and deprivation of sensual pleasures, man has given them up as impracticable and is struggling in all lands and climes with the middle two - wealth and desire. All the fear and misery of life can be traced to this dire mistake. What has to be done is to take the four as two inseparable pairs, and . That is to say, earn wealth through righteousness and use wealth for the promotion of righteousness. And let liberation be your only desire.