India, Nov. 11 -- When we make an attempt to understand the nature of man and the state of society, we find that all actions of man are goaded by one or the other of his four basic desires. One of the desires concerns the fulfilment of physical or economic needs which includes food, clothing and shelter. Nobody can argue with that; a hungry man cannot think of anything else. And to fulfil these desires, he requires money or wealth. But the difficulty is that man does not stop at fulfilling these basic needs; his desire for comforts takes the form of greed, and that is when the real struggle starts.

The goalpost keeps moving, and then yesterday's luxury becomes today's necessity. His excessive demands and the endlessness of his longings c...