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Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the way one uses money ( | Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the way one uses money (artha) defines their spiritual standing. In the material world, the standard motivation is to work hard, earn money, and spend it on sense gratification (kāma)—eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. This path is described as suicidal because it wastes the human form of life and leads to degradation. Leaders, kings, and wealthy individuals often fail because they misuse public or inherited funds for personal enjoyment rather than for the welfare of the citizens or the service of God. In contrast, a devotee or a civilized human being uses wealth for dharma (religious principles) and Kṛṣṇa's service. The formula for a successful life is to utilize resources for spiritual advancement, not for the "plundering senses." | ||
* '''The Materialist's Cycle:''' Earn money, spend on sense gratification, and become entangled in the cycle of birth and death. | * '''The Materialist's Cycle:''' Earn money, spend on sense gratification, and become entangled in the cycle of birth and death. | ||
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Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the way one uses money (artha) defines their spiritual standing. In the material world, the standard motivation is to work hard, earn money, and spend it on sense gratification (kāma)—eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. This path is described as suicidal because it wastes the human form of life and leads to degradation. Leaders, kings, and wealthy individuals often fail because they misuse public or inherited funds for personal enjoyment rather than for the welfare of the citizens or the service of God. In contrast, a devotee or a civilized human being uses wealth for dharma (religious principles) and Kṛṣṇa's service. The formula for a successful life is to utilize resources for spiritual advancement, not for the "plundering senses."
- The Materialist's Cycle: Earn money, spend on sense gratification, and become entangled in the cycle of birth and death.
- Leadership Failure: Kings and modern leaders fail when they use taxes/funds for personal luxury instead of public/spiritual welfare.
- The Proper Use: Money should be divided for religion, reputation, opulence, and maintenance—not squandered on vice.
- The Trap: The "goddess of fortune" (Lakṣmī) must be engaged in Nārāyaṇa's service; otherwise, she becomes the cause of ruin.
- Devotional Standard: A Vaiṣṇava does not use a single farthing for personal sense gratification but engages everything for Kṛṣṇa.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Money for Sense Gratification.
Pages in category "Money for Sense Gratification"
The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
A
- A King is not meant simply to realize taxes from the citizens and accumulate wealth to spend in sense gratification. World monarchy has failed ever since kings began to satisfy their personal senses with the taxes accumulated from the citizens
- A rich man's sons are misguided. They get some money without earning and they spend like anything for sense gratification. But he should know, "Oh, I have got this opportunity by the grace of Krsna"
- A Vaisnava guru accepts money or other contributions, but he does not employ such contributions for sense gratification
- According to atheists, sense gratification also does not depend on the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for if one earns enough money by any process, one will have sufficient opportunity for sense gratification
- After his father's death, a son tries to inherit his money and use it for sense gratification
- An irresponsible king takes the royal position to be his personal property and misuses his treasury for sense gratification
- An ordinary worker conducts business in order to earn money for his sense gratification. A devotee may perform the same work in exactly the same way, but his aim is to satisfy the Supreme Lord. Consequently his activities are not ordinary
- Antara may mean - greed, greed to acquire more money or enjoy more sense gratification. Finally, the word antara may also mean - atheistic ideas, by which one considers the temple Deity to be made of stone, wood or gold. All of these are impediments
- As soon as kings became degraded, spending money for sense gratification, they were lost. Similarly, at the present moment, monarchy having been lost, the people have created democracy, which is also failing
B
- Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires, by lust and anger, they (the demoniac) secure money by illegal means for sense gratification. BG 16.11-12 - 1972
- Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they (the demoniac) secure money by illegal means for sense gratification
- By such understanding, one is not so much materially active. One is satisfied with income which can simply maintain his body and soul together and he is no more interested to increase the bank balance unnecessarily for sense gratification
D
- Don't keep Indian culture airtight, and don't keep American money for sense gratification. Use it for Krsna. So they are doing that. And Krsna is giving them intelligence. Bhakti-yogam dadami tam
- Don't keep money. Spend it. The karmis, they spend for sense gratification. You spend for Krsna
- Don't spend your hard-earned money for sense gratification. Then one may say that "After all, we have got this body, and we have to eat, we have to sleep. And because we have got senses, the senses must be a little bit satisfied." No
E
- Economic development means to get more money and to satisfy senses more and more. This is the modern theory. But Krsna says that to achieve the perfection of life, one should be nirasih. Nirasih means unnecessarily desiring for sense gratification
- Everyone is earning money simply for sense gratification. And there are so many advertisement for sense gratification. If you go to the city, you will find all the shops, cinema, hotel and wine shop and this shop or that shop
- Everyone is interested how to earn money or how to gratify senses. That is the modern civilization. Here is a competition of sense gratification. I'm gratifying my senses in one way, and all others, they are trying to imitate me or compete
F
- Factually all human society is following this path - of earning money and gratifying the senses
- For human society, constantly thinking of how to earn money and apply it for sense gratification brings about the destruction of everyone's interests. When one becomes devoid of knowledge & DS, he enters into species of life like those of trees & stones
G
- Generally, in the material world two things are going on. The karmis are busy try to earn money for their sense gratification, and the jnanis, they've given up the world as mithya
- Government men - including kings, presidents, secretaries and ministers - are in a position to utilize taxes collected from the citizens for sense gratification
I
- If by God's grace we get more then you can make sale, we are not going to work for selling purpose. Then money will be there. How to get money, how to get money? And as soon as you get money, more than necessity, then sense gratification
- If he takes money from others & utilizes it for his sense gratification, then he goes to hell. Then it is finished. Then he is a cheater; actually he is a criminal. You cannot take money, a farthing, from anyone, & use it for your own sense gratification
- If I would have collected the money and used for my sense gratification. Then nobody would help me
- If one has money one should divide all that he has accumulated into five divisions - one part for religion, one part for reputation, one part for opulence, one part for sense gratification and one part to maintain the members of his family
- If people do not take to Krishna and simply want to utilize the Goddess of Fortune for sense gratification as it was the policy of the demons like Ravana and Hiranyakasipu, then the finishing touch will certainly culminate in releasing the nuclear weapon
- If you are actually religious, then your artha should not be spent for sense gratification. Na tasya dharmaikantasya kamo labhayo hi smrtah
- If you engage yourself always in good activities, as the karmis they do, and earn money and use it for your own sense gratification, that is papa activity
- If you have got money, that you should be properly utilized, not for sense gratification - wine, women, and hotel, and cinema. No. Then by your artha you are going to hell. Artha, everything
- In the forest of material existence, the uncontrolled senses are like plunderers. The conditioned soul may earn some money for the advancement of Krsna consciousness, but unfortunately the uncontrolled senses plunder his money through sense gratification
- In the material world everyone is interested in money and sense gratification. The only objective is to earn as much money as possible and utilize it for satisfaction of the senses
- It is not recommended that one act only for sense gratification and earn money for that purpose only, sacrificing all religious principles
- It is not that one should try to satisfy the Supreme Lord with a little water and a leaf, and for himself spend all his money in sense gratification
M
- Material thought means these fruitive activities. "I shall work very hard, and I shall get so much wealth, and for this purpose I can go to church & temple. If God gives me millions of dollars, then I am ready to go." Real purpose is sense gratification
- Materialists foolishly make many plans to become happy in this material world. They do not stop to consider that they will live only for a certain number of years, out of which they must spend the major portion acquiring money for sense gratification
- Maya's most attractive feature is women and money. We Krishna Conscious men have to deal with women and money in course of preaching work, and the only prophylactic measure to save us is not to accept them for our sense gratification
- Money is undoubtedly coming in great quantities, but we should not be attached to this money for sense gratification; every cent should be spent for spreading the Krsna consciousness movement, not for sense gratification
O
- One can see that even if one has enough money and adequate arrangement for sense gratification, there is neither happiness nor peace of mind. That is not possible because one is situated in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports
- One should understand that the wealth and opportunity one gets in the material world should not be squandered in sense gratification. They are meant for the advancement of Krsna consciousness
- One who is actually religious, he does not earn money for sense gratification. Na kamo labhaya hi smrtah. But at the present moment, the more we earn money, more we make prescription or program how to enjoy senses
- One who is constantly thinking of activities to earn money and gratify the senses is following a path which is suicidal
- One who is in full knowledge should divide his accumulated wealth in five parts - for religion, for reputation, for opulence, for sense gratification and for the maintenance of his family members. Such a person is happy in this world and in the next
- Ordinary karmis are busy acquiring money for sense gratification, and ordinary jnanis are socially aloof when they speculate on liberation, but actual devotees and saintly persons are always anxious to see how the people can be made happy
S
- Sannyasa does not mean begging from door to door to accumulate money for sense gratification. However, because in Kali-yuga people are more or less prone to sense gratification, immature sannyasa is not recommended
- Simply transferring wealth from capitalists to communists cannot solve the problem of modern politics, for it has been demonstrated that when a communist gets money, he uses it for his own sense gratification
- Some way or other, people are determined to earn money or get money by begging, borrowing or stealing and applying that for sense gratification. Such a civilization is the greatest obstacle in the path of self-realization
T
- The conditioned soul is obliged to gratify his senses, and thus all his money is spent. This money is actually acquired for the execution of religious principles, but it is taken away by the plundering senses
- The king of the country or the emperor of the empire must be so trained that by nature he renounces sense gratification. It is not that because one becomes king he should unnecessarily spend money for sense gratification
- The materialistic persons, their policy is to take, earn money like anything, and employ it in sense gratification. That is their policy. But our policy is to take away the money from the atheist and employ it to the service of Ramacandra
- The merchant is the living entity who comes to the forest of material existence to try to make money for sense gratification
- The process of tax exaction is very nicely explained in this verse (SB 4.16.6). Tax exaction is not meant for the sense gratification of the so-called administrative heads
- The revenue of the government is more sacred than the property of a brahmana. One who misappropriates the government's money and uses it to enjoy sense gratification is most sinful
- There are also institutions (in India) collecting money from all parts of the world in the name of welfare activities for poverty-stricken people, but they are spending it for their own sense gratification
- They (materialistic persons who become preachers, gurus, religionists or philosophers) spread a network of business schemes to collect money for sense gratification by cheating people in general, who have no knowledge of pure devotional service
- They (persons who are interested in going back home, back to Godhead) should also not accept the objectives of materialistic persons, namely money and sense gratification
- They cannot use money, simply for sense gratification. That is the sudra. And brahmana, ksatriya, especially ksatriya, as soon as they get money, they would make a big sacrifice to satisfy visnu-yajna
- They spend fifty thousand dollars weekly for seeing naked dance. You see? So money is being misused in this way. Everyone wants sense gratification. And for sense gratification, they want money. And they are earning money
- This Krsna consciousness movement, they are appreciating. So all the charity should come here. Then it is properly utilized. Because we do not use a single paisa for anything of sense gratification
- Those who are going to be religious for getting relief from this hard struggle for existence, for them arthasya, you require some artha, money. If you are actually religious, then your artha should not be spent for sense gratification
- Tourists means they are all rich class of men. They come here to spend money for sense gratification. That is the way of civilization, the modern civilization: "Earn money at any cost. At the risk of all advancement of life, enjoy"
W
- We are earning money by some occupation. That's all. Then what is the purpose of this money? Now, if you are dharmic, dharmaikantasya, if you are actually religious, then your money is not meant for sense gratification
- We do not want any extra money for sense gratification, but Krishna is so kind He is supplying the necessary amount
- We perform religion for getting some economic benefit, artha. And why artha is required? For kama, dharma artha kama. For, for satisfying our sense gratification we require money
- Whatever money is collected should be spent for Krsna, and not a farthing for sense gratification. This is the Bhagavata principle
- When a poverty-stricken man becomes rich, he makes a program for sense gratification due to his ignorance of how to utilize his hard-earned money. Under the spell of the external energy, he thinks that his money is properly employed
- When one's economic condition becomes very nice, he wants to make economic condition very nice, he wants some monetary, financial adjustment. This financial improvement people generally want for sense gratification
- When there is profit, then there is sense gratification. That's, this is their aim. When they get some money, immediately how to spend it for sense gratification, not only for personal self but also family
- When we are in need of money to carry on Krishna's work, then we can resort to whatever means there is available. So long it is always for Krishna and never for personal sense gratification. So you can try to get some money in that way
- When we go to the office, apparently I work for the master. But I don't work for the master; I work for the money. And why I want money? For my sense gratification
Y
- You require some money. Because without money, without source of income, how you can live? But that is not meant for sense gratification
- Your only business is to understand what you are, what God is, what is this world, what is your relationship. This is your main business. This is your main business. Not that you earn money and employ it for sense gratification