Morally Earn Money

Meaning: The following line of the Rigved 7/32/18 has given us the information that - Money earned through moral means, when used in good deeds leads to salvation. Those who use it for sinful acts get destroyed.

Message: Money is important everywhere. A king or a timid citizen, rich or poor, a householder or a man who has renounced the world - the work of each one of them halts for the lack of money. In this world everyone worships money. One must of course make efforts for earning money. But the efforts should not be such that they may be condemned by excellent people and give a bad name. That income must be pure!

Money is certainly necessary for maintaining social transactions. It is always impossible to ignore it. Just as the protection of our body is necessary for fulfilling our realistic aim, similarly money is also necessary. But this is certainly not the ultimate goal of man's life. The main reason for all our troubles to-day is that we have considered money as the be-all and end-all of our life. we are not able to see anything except that.  The Hindi saying, 'baap bada na bhaiya, sabse bada rupaiya' means neither one's father nor brother is important, the most important is money. Not only that now money is considered as even bigger. In their mad rush for earning money, people have forgotten God also. But when they come across a hurdle or suffer loss in their pursuit of money, then they invariably abuse god. As if, it is God's responsibility to protect man's money and to co-operate in the immoral acts in which he failed. Those who think that money is everything, go on making right or wrong plans for becoming somehow wealthy. But they never pay any attention to the harm to the society by their improper behavior. They only look to their selfish interest only. They want to earn more and more money by any means, even thought it may mean that they themselves may become the victims of their own immoral acts.

There is a Sanskrit language saying, 'sarvegunaha kanchanmashrayanti' which means,' all the qualities of this world are within gold'. But it is forgotten that bad attitudes such as lust and other intense desire, anger, greed, attachment are also born along with wealth. But when money is earned honestly through the sweat of one's brew, there is a certain fragrance in it and by utilizing such money for good deeds man achieves fame. Man never wastes on the wrong path the money earned through hard work. But he never feels sorry for unnecessarily wasting the money earned immorally. In such a man's heart there is the sentiment expressed in Urdu as 'Maale muft, dile beraham' which means 'when it is someone else's money, you can afford to be ruthless in spending it' and he gets trapped in addictions such as gambling, liquor etc. Such money gets used in tyranny, sinful acts, wicked acts and corruption. Such a chain is formed of the various links of sinful acts, that the man himself gets bound by it and then it becomes extremely difficult for him to free himself. He is surrounded by tamogun' and he becomes incapable of thinking about salvation for the self or the welfare of the public.

Honestly earned money develops a man's 'saatvik' intelligence and inspires him to conduct himself on religious lines in the service of the people.