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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in others.If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay,envied Hercules, who never existed- Bertrand Russels
What Sandhya has is envy not greed. That is a difference between the two:
Greed is not always destructive, while envy is. Greed is the desire to have more and, depending how that desire is acted upon, can be beneficial or detrimental. When envy, on the other hand, is acted upon, there is no good, only bad.
For simple example: Greed is wanting for more marks in ur exam, what do u do? u study hard,Perform well.Where as Envy kicks in when u are not happy with someone else getting more marks than you.Do u think anything positive can come out of Envy, nope!Even if U work hard to get more marks, you don't end up gaining much coz ur main crux of action was negative.
Sandhya here is not nursing greed/lalach; it is envy/jalan, for not having what Mansi has.Till Mansi was not in picture she nurtured greed, she wanted her husband to be more successful to have an upper hand, to be more authoritative. She saw things through the prescriptive of her and her husbands bright future.
But now what she posses is dark envy. She is playing cheap, pathetic games to separate Manasi-shivi, she wants her husband to progress so that she can be treated well in the house. Envy has added a whole wrong dimension to her greed.
Again the actor is doing a very convincing job. All I want to say is have greed in life, all need to have some greed in life to succeed, give greed a right direction with your sincerity and hard work, but stay miles away from envy.
All I can say to Sandhya is a beautiful teaching from Lord Krishna to Arjuna in Mahabharat:
"The mind is fickle; it is in fact villainous, it won't obey you. Know therefore that you should be in the driver seat of this vehicle, that is the body-mind-intellect. Every time the mind misbehaves, bring it back to the rightful position by using your discretionary intellect. You have to do this constantly and continuously. Never chicken out. You may have to carry on this struggle life after life until you succeed. You will succeed, if you have My Grace"
PS: I being a Hindu ,relate more with Hindu teaching, so I use them in my posts.I'm not being biased or religious out here, just stating my point of view on a character. I feel every character teaches u something good or bad, strangly today Sandhya's character has enlightened this for me.
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