Jesus said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops? I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. Take your ease. Eat, drink, be merry.'

"But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God."

So Jesus said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap. They have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?

"Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Soloman in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O men of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind. For all the nations of the world seek these things, and God knows that you need them. Instead, seek God's kingdom, and these things shall be yours as well."

Preprinted from The Holy Bible. 1946. Revised Standard version. Collins'Clear-type Press, London, UK.

Q: What is covetousness?

Q: What is your attitude to your possessions?

Q: Do you understand what Jesus was trying to tell his disciples through this parable? How does it relate to your life?

Maxim Four: "Be plain and simple to be identical with Nature".
Maxim Eight: "Be happy to eat in constant Divine thought, whatever you get, with due regard to honest and pious earnings".

Q: How do these maxims relate to Jesus's story?

O, Master!
Thou art the real goal of human life.
We are yet but slaves of wishes
Putting bar to our advancement,
Thou art the only God and power
To bring us up to that stage.