हितोपदेश - मित्रलाभ - लोभ

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- हितोपदेश - मित्रलाभ

Greed forces wisdom to abandon you. It gives rise to various desires. Desires lead to sorrow - both in this world as well as the after life.

- Hitopadesha, Mitralabha