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ENVY

AFTER the libation ceremony for Bhishma was over, Vyasa narrated' to grief-stricken Yudhishthira an episode in Brihaspati's life.

The wisest of men are sometimesaffected by envy and suffer thereby. Brihaspati, teacher to the gods themselves, was master of all knowledge. He was learned in all the Vedas and all the sciences, yet he was once the victim of this debasing emotion and suffered disgrace.

Brihaspati had a younger brother, Sam- varta, who was also a person of great learning and a very good man. Brihaspati was, for this reason, stricken with envy of his brother.

In this world men become envious of others, just because the others are good, while they themselves are not so good, and they cannot bear this. It is strange indeed that men should not suffer even virtue in others.

Brihaspati harassed Samvarta in many ways. When he could not stand it any more,poor Samvarta put on the appea- rance of an eccentric and wandered from place to place, and spent his days in that way to escape from his brother's persecution.

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