Category:Wanting Money
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the modern civilization is driven by an insatiable hunger for wealth. While a basic amount of money is required to maintain the body and cultivate spiritual life, people today want money unlimitedly to satisfy their ever-growing desires for sense gratification. This intense greed traps the living entity in a cycle of illusion, leading to cheating, criminal activities, and exploitation by corrupt governments. Even when people approach God or demigods out of financial distress, their mentality remains rooted in the material concept of life. In contrast, a pure Vaiṣṇava follows the standard set by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, completely rejecting the desire for material wealth. By taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, true happiness is awakened, and the feverish endeavor for money is naturally neglected, as the Supreme Lord automatically provides for His sincere devotees.
- The Snare of Sense Gratification: Driven by lust and greed, people are never satisfied, even if they become millionaires. The desire for money forces them into sinful and criminal activities just to maintain their families and fund their sense enjoyment.
- The Illusion of Unlimited Wealth: Society is no longer content with simple living. This constant want of money creates a nonsense civilization full of frustration, where citizens are endlessly exploited by incompetent leaders.
- Approaching God for Wealth: Those in distress often turn to religion or demigod worship for financial relief. While this is a pious beginning, it keeps the practitioner in the material concept of life rather than on the platform of pure devotion.
- The Vaiṣṇava Standard of Renunciation: A genuine devotee does not want material wealth. When money is acquired, it is used strictly to build temples and spread spiritual knowledge, proving that true happiness comes from serving Kṛṣṇa, not from hoarding money.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Wanting Money Unlimitedly to Satisfy Insatiable Desires.
Pages in category "Wanting Money"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- Everyone wants money, everyone wants good wife, good family, good comfortable life. Caitanya Mahaprabhu denies, that "I don't want all these things."
- Everyone wants some money. Without money he cannot exist. The process may be different, how he's earning money. Similarly, every religion, the aim is to go back to home, back to Godhead
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- I don't want your money; you are taking books from us, and you are paying
- Initiation into bhakti begins when one is in a distressed condition or in want of money, or when one is inquisitive to understand the Absolute Truth. Nonetheless, people who approach the Supreme Lord in this way are not actually devotees
- It is recommended in the Vedic scriptures that if one wants money, health or education, then he should worship the various demigods
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- So by any means money wanted. So he adopted all disrespectful profession - cheating, gambling and stealing, any way to live… The only attraction is family, kutumba. So for the sake of maintaining family, he was committing all kinds of sinful activities
- Sometimes we commit so many criminal activities to satisfy our senses, because we want money. So palita durnidesah. My conscience says, "You don't do it." But, because I want to enjoy my senses, I must do it
- Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura herein (SB 9.5.27) gives a very good example. When one is very eager for more and more money, he is not satisfied even when he is a millionaire or a multimillionaire, but wants to earn more and more money by any means
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- The citizens are no longer satisfied with just enough money to maintain a family nicely and cultivate spiritual knowledge, both of which are essential in human life. Now everyone wants money unlimitedly to satisfy insatiable desires
- The distressed and the man in want of money are in the material concept of life because distress and need of money are both in relationship with this body
- The government will be incompetent, the more the citizens will be exploited. Ultimately the citizens will suffer. Because they will want money and plunder the citizens, they will be disgusted
- The King answered in surprise, "I did not know about all this. Why should his life be taken? I only want the money from him"
- The whole world is going on kama and lobha. One is getting money. When he has got one thousand, he wants one lakh. If he gets one lakh, he wants more and more and more. This is called kama. And why? Lobha. They are making profit
- 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
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- We do not want money. But they are having money by so many ways. So we take their money and construct a temple. We can sit down here and chant Hare Krsna. We don't require that temple
- We want money to become happy, but if we take to Krsna consciousness, automatically we will become so happy that we will neglect money. Money will automatically come. Happiness will come. There is no need to endeavor for these things separately
- What is the fault on the part of the King? He wants the government's money. However, when they are punished for failing to pay the government its due, they come to Me to release them
- What is this nonsense civilization? Simply want of money and unsatisfied in every step. Especially in the Western countries they're becoming hippie. Why? The training is different
- When enlightened by pious activities, they (living entities) approach the Supreme Lord in different capacities-as the distressed, those in want of money, the inquisitive, and those in search of knowledge. That is also described. BG 1972 purports
- 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