Category:Sufficient Money
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category clarifies the spiritual and material perspectives regarding sufficient money. In material life, even if one acquires sufficient money for family and sense gratification, true happiness remains elusive, and relationships often falter when funds run dry. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that true economic development means acquiring only sufficient money to maintain the body and soul together. For a sincere devotee, Kṛṣṇa naturally provides protection and sufficient resources, eliminating the need for overly strenuous labor. Furthermore, whenever sufficient money is acquired by devotees, it must never be claimed as personal property, as it belongs to the Supreme Lord and should be utilized entirely for His mission through careful management and distribution.
- The Illusion of Material Wealth: Accumulating excess money for sense gratification fails to bring genuine happiness, and material relationships built on financial dependency quickly dissolve when funds are exhausted.
- True Economic Development: A civilized human being should avoid unscrupulous hoarding and focus solely on earning sufficient money to maintain the physical body for spiritual execution.
- Divine Provision for Devotees: A surrendered soul does not need to labor exhaustively like an ordinary materialist; just as a wealthy father provides for his son, the Supreme Lord perfectly maintains His devotees.
- Utilizing Wealth for the Supreme: All money acquired in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and must be used to print books, build temples, and distribute spiritual food.
- Practical Financial Management: Spiritual leaders must manage the Lord's resources with great care, ensuring that funds are not spent haphazardly while pragmatically pushing the mission forward without delay.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Depending on the Supreme Lord For Sufficient Money and Protection.
Pages in category "Sufficient Money"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- A man keeps a family for enjoyment, and similarly family members demand enjoyment from the head of the family. When they do not receive sufficient money from him, they grow disinterested and ignore his commands or desires
- A poor man may try to earn money by hard labor, but one who is a very, very rich man's son, why should he labor? The father's money is sufficient. Similarly, a devotee, a sincere devotee, he is under the protection of Krsna
- After the Battle of Kuruksetra the state treasury was exhausted, and therefore there was no surplus fund except the fund from tax collection and fines. Such funds were sufficient only for the state budget
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- I was getting some money by contributions in my lectures. But in the beginning my all expenditures were not sufficient collection
- If one has sufficient money, he can help in building an office or temple for propagating Krsna consciousness. Or he can help with publications. BG 1972 purports
- In future if there is money sufficient I wish to print each volume of my book, 5000 copies. Now, very soon we shall get 5000 copies of TLC and we have to organize the sales propaganda. If there is sale, then there is no scarcity of matter for printing
- In Krsna consciousness we are getting sufficient money, but we should never think that the money belongs to us; it belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and should be equally distributed to the workers, the devotees
- In this age, distribution of prasada has replaced distribution of money. No one has sufficient money to distribute, but if we distribute krsna-prasada as far as possible, this is more valuable than the distribution of money
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- She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "You are a householder; therefore without money you are in distress. But as soon as He (Krsna) understands your position, He will certainly give you sufficient riches so that you can live very comfortably"
- Such funds (from tax collection and fines) were sufficient only for the state budget, and having no excess fund, the King was anxious to get more wealth in some other way in order to perform the horse sacrifice
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- We have got the plans drawn by Saurabha and that architect, Mr. Suri, still, if we have not got sufficient funds and if there is long delay to get them, better to go ahead and build something little cheaper and very simple
- When they (family members) do not receive sufficient money from him, they grow disinterested and ignore his commands or desires. This is all due to one's being a krpana (miser)