Do you have a clear conscience?

There is a story which goes like this:

Once upon a time there was a very powerful and wealthy king. He had four wives.
The forth wife he loved very much, he loved her the most. He looked after her well, gave her delicious things to eat, spend a lot of time with her.
The third wife also he loved, he showed her off to the neighboring Kings. They envied him because of her. He always feared that one day she would run away with one of the neighboring Kings.
The second wife was also loved by the king. She was very wise. The King would always go to her for advice. She was very loyal to him.
The first wife loved him very much. He did not take much care of her. He did not feed her or clothe her well.
One day the king was badly wounded in a battle. He was on his deathbed. He knew his time had come to say farewell to the world. He thought of his four wives.
He called his fourth wife to him and asked her “I loved you the most, if I die now will you come with me?”. “Of course I won’t”, answered the fourth wife and walked away.
He called the third wife, “My time has come to say farewell to this world, will you come with me”, he asked her.
“No I won’t I have a lovely life ahead of me I will marry some one else and live happily”. She answered and walked away.
The King called the Second wife “I have always come to you for advice and you have never failed me, if I die today will you come with me”?
The second wife answered slowly “That would be impossible, At the most what I can do is, see to that all your last rites are done properly”.
“I will come with you” said a feeble voice from the corner of the room. The king turned to look at his first wife who was rarely noticed and taken care of by him. He was filled with remorse “If only I had taken care of you and loved you when I was capable, what a fool I have been, please forgive me” he said crying.
If we look at our lives we can notice that each of us has four wives in life.
The fourth wife is our body, to which we pay a lot of attention, to make ourselves attractive, the body becomes mud after we die.
The third wife is our wealth, which we like showing off, but which goes to someone else when we die.
The second wife, are our friends and relatives who will forget us after our death.
The first wife is our soul, according to many religions it is our soul which will remain with us after our death. To those who are not very religious, your fourth wife is your conscience, many a time we don’t have a clear conscience we have a prick of conscience.
When we are young we think, we are immortal or we have many more years to live and that we will sober down when we become as old as our grandparents, thus we indulge in the pleasures of life, each according to their means with a desire for more. For many men the three W’s in life are “wealth”, “women” and “wine”.
Buddha has said “Desire is the cause of all misery”.