Category:Acquiring Money
Theme Analysis
The act of acquiring wealth is a neutral activity that becomes either spiritual or material based on the consciousness of the performer. Śrīla Prabhupāda draws a sharp distinction between the devotee, who utilizes resources for the service of the Lord, and the materialist, who accumulates money solely for personal sense gratification. While the external activity may appear similar, the internal motivation determines the result: one path leads to liberation and the satisfaction of Krsna, while the other entangles the soul in the cycle of birth and death, often driving the living entity toward sinful activities, cheating, and eventual punishment by the laws of nature.
- The Devotional Perspective: A devotee may acquire wealth, but unlike the ordinary man, they do so exclusively for the service of the Lord. They do not struggle for money but accept what comes by the grace of the Supreme, engaging it in spreading Krsna consciousness.
- The Demoniac Mentality: Guided by insatiable greed, the demoniac person believes there is no limit to acquiring money. Driven by the concept of "I am the proprietor," they often resort to cheating and envious activities to increase their hoard for sense enjoyment.
- Consequences of Greed: Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that money acquired through envy or cheating becomes "passage money" to hellish regions. The laws of nature and Yamaraja are strict; one who cheats to enjoy in this life suffers severe reactions in the next.
- Destiny and Endeavor: Materialists foolishly believe that hard labor alone guarantees wealth, ignoring the law of karma. In reality, one obtains only what is destined, and a life spent solely on acquiring money for temporary comfort is a wasted human form.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Acquiring Money for Kṛṣṇa or for Sense Gratification.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Acquiring Money"
The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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- A pure devotee may be attracted to accumulating wealth just like an ordinary man, but the difference is that a devotee acquires money for the service of the Lord, whereas the ordinary man acquires money for his sense enjoyment
- All monies acquired are spent for Krsna, in spreading His message in so many ways. Such a style of life, in which everything is done for Krsna, promotes the development of Krsna consciousness within the living entity
- Although he knows that one who takes the wealth of others will be punished by the law of the government, and by the laws of Yamaraja after death, he continues cheating others to acquire money
- 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
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- Especially in these days, people do not believe in a next life or in the court of Yamaraja and the various punishments of the sinful. But at least one should know that one who cheats others to acquire money will be punished by the laws of the government
- Everyone is trying to be educated to acquire money. In the Western countries, these are very prominent, janmaisvarya-sruta. They are not very much interested about the janma, but aisvarya, sruta, they are interested, and sri
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- He (the person in the second classs of men) cheats everyone to acquire money for his family and his self, and he becomes envious of others without reason. Such a person is thrown into the hell known as Raurava
- He goes alone to the darkest regions of hell after quitting the present body, and the money he acquired by envying other living entities is the passage money with which he leaves this world
- His only business is to acquire money. He is collecting money like anything and is not contributing to the society. So what can I do? I did not say anything to him. I am simply praying to Krishna for his welfare
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- If his (the foolish materialist 's) father dies, he wants to enjoy his father's property, and if his son dies, he wants to enjoy his son's possessions as well. In either case, he heedlessly tries to enjoy material happiness with the acquired money
- It is not possible that simply by endeavors to accumulate more money a person will be able to do so, otherwise almost everyone would be on the same level of wealth. In reality everyone is earning and acquiring according to his predestined karma
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- 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
- Meat-eating and intoxication excite the senses more and more, and the conditioned soul falls victim to women. In order to keep women, money is required, and to acquire money, one begs, borrows or steals
- Money may be offered to a devotee, but he should not struggle to acquire it. If automatically, by the grace of the Supreme, money comes to him, he is not agitated. BG 1972 purports
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- One may risk everything to acquire money, and this is especially true of rich men who are too attached to household life
- One who acquires more money than necessary becomes desirous of enjoying material comforts more and more
- 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
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- 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 demoniac man knows no limit to his desire to acquire money. That is unlimited. BG 1972 purports
- They will acquire money, begging from door to door, simply for the satisfaction of the body
- "Thus far I have acquired so much money and land. Now I have to add more and more. In this way I shall be the greatest proprietor of everything. Who can compete with me?" These are all demoniac conceptions
- To maintain the grhastha life-style, one has to work very hard to acquire money. Thus one is implicated in material life, and he suffers the thorn pricks