There is a Hindustani poem which says, "When you have ten lakh" (lakh = 100,000 rupees) or twenty, or fifty, or a hundred, you will still want a thousand; if you obtained them you would still want more." In fact you would want the whole world, and even if you had that your desire would not come to an end. The reason for this is that whatever man desires is always limited, whereas his desire itself knows no limits. When one desire is satisfied there is another and then another, and so on and on. Man's desire remains much greater and vaster and wider than every object that can be desired, and since the one who desires does not know his own value, nor the value of the objects sought by him, he remains in a state of poverty. This poverty degrades his life; the degradation of all human life proceeds from this one thing.