Thus Spake Sri Rama

The sayings in this section have been collected from various sources like the Valmiki Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana and the Yoga Vasishtha Ramayana. 

• Just as a river produces a series of swirling waves during the rains, wealth too whirls the foolish men into eddies of pride and haughtiness.
• As the billows are born of the stream, worries without number are born of wealth. It causes man to be as restless as the billows, and prompts him to perpetrate evil deeds.
• As a gem covered with ashes becomes dirty, so also scholars, heroes, humble and grateful persons lose their respective nature and become corrupted when they amass wealth.
• As the poisonous creeper becomes the cause of death, so also worldly property brings only sorrow instead of happiness. There is possibility of losing the self if a man spends all his energy only to preserve his property.
• The fool feels in his heart that wealth is the highest good and the only way to happiness. In reality, it causes ignorance, sorrow and all untoward circumstances.
• Just as the dust tarnishes even the brightness of a gem, wealth too contaminates the virtues of the wise.
• Lakshmi charms the imagination of men with fleeting colors as of a rainbow; she is restless like the lightning.