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Leading A Spiritual Life

of money and that if he had built a school on this site,
that would have been a much better use for his money.
If you spend your money for some constructive
purpose, that is very good, but if you spend it on
ostentation, then it is really bad. It requires great wisdom
and hard labour to acquire money. It is very strange
then that one chooses to be stupid when it comes to
spending that hard earned money.

If you spend money for the betterment of society,
it will enhance your goodwill and earn the respect of
others. But if you lavish your money on your family or
children, that will only be providing them with easy
money, and easy money is the worst of all things, in
terms of the consequences it has for them. It is good
to have money, but if money makes you arrogant, then
it is worse than poison. If, on the other hand, money
makes you modest, then it is the greatest source of your
personality development.
If you make money your sole concern in life, that
means that you are underutilizing yourself. Money, of
course, is a necessity, but its acquisition should not be
your sole purpose in life.

There is a saying, ‘In comparison do we understand’.
If you compare money with learning, you can easily
understand the difference between the two. Money
is a risky form of capital, for you can lose it through
an expected or unexpected event. But learning is a
permanent asset. If you have an insatiable nature,
apply it to learning, don’t apply it to money, which is a
dubious investment.

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