Translation: The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of
this world) diverts you 6257 (from the more serious
things),
Commentary:
6257 Acquisitiveness, that is, the passion for seeking an increase in wealth,
position, the number of adherents or followers or supporters, mass production
and mass organisation, may affect an individual as such, or it may affect whole
societies or nations. Other people's example or rivalry in such things may
aggravate the situation. Up to a certain point it may be good and necessary. But
when it becomes inordinate and monopolises attention, it leaves no time for
higher things in life, and a clear warning is here sounded from a spiritual point of
view. Man may be engrossed in these things till death approaches, and he looks
back on a wasted life, as far as the higher things are concerned.
6257 Acquisitiveness, that is, the passion for seeking an increase in wealth, position, the number of adherents or followers or supporters, mass production and mass organisation, may affect an individual as such, or it may affect whole societies or nations. Other people's example or rivalry in such things may aggravate the situation. Up to a certain point it may be good and necessary. But when it becomes inordinate and monopolises attention, it leaves no time for higher things in life, and a clear warning is here sounded from a spiritual point of view. Man may be engrossed in these things till death approaches, and he looks back on a wasted life, as far as the higher things are concerned.