Lobha, the miserliness or avarice is the third of Arishadvarga, the set of six enemies.
Lobha means miserliness and it is an excessive selfish desire to cling on to something and not willing to part with even a fraction of it to others.
Normally, Lobha is associated with the tendency to keep accumulating wealth along with an extreme hesitation to spend even for essential needs.
Lobha is also seen when someone refuses to share even excess food with the hungry, unwillingness to part with the knowledge and in general not caring to help anyone in need even if one is in a position to help without losing anything.
Lobha and Greed are two sides of the same coin. Lobha is an obsession to retain wealth whereas Greed is an obsession to acquire wealth. If Lobha is aroused by having to forcibly part with some of the possessions or Greed gets thwarted then it could result in Krodha (anger).
Glorious John Dryden, the British poet says, “Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole. So, others may say when you are dead and gone, see what a vast estate he left his son”.
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