From the Bible:
“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and bare what was put therein.
Then said Jesus, “Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you: but me ye have not always.”
From the Bhagavad Gita, second Chapter:
If one ponders on sense objects, there springs up attraction to them. From attraction grows desire. Desire, impatient for fulfillment, flames to anger. From anger there arises infatuation (the delusion that one object alone is worth clinging to, to the exclusion of all others). From infatuation ensues forgetfulness of the higher Self. From forgetfulness of the Self follows degeneration of the discriminative faculty. And when discrimination is lost, there follows the annihilation of one’s spiritual life.
