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Religion: Real wealth
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Wealth to us is gold, land, or
other monetary assets. But this is not real wealth. A man may make a lot of
money, but can he take any of it with him, when it is time for him to depart
from this world?
A man may have a very high status
in society. He may have fame; he may have power. But none of this is going to
stop him from dying.
Even good looks are temporary, for
they last only as long as we are young.
The greatest wealth we have is our
birth as human beings, because only human beings can contemplate on the Supreme
One and get liberated from the cycle of birth and deaths.
Only if you are born a human can
you make efforts to attain moksha, said Goda Venkateswara Sastrigal, in a
discourse.
To be born a human being is a great
boon. But instead of seeking the company of those who have bhakti and gnana, we
hanker after other things. Bhartrhari, in his Niti Sataka, talks of people who
do not tread the right path and says they are like a man who roasts sesame seeds
in a golden vessel, studded with diamonds, the fuel used being sandalwood! They
are like a man, who makes a plough of gold and ploughs the land in which he
plans to grow cotton! He cuts valuable trees, and uses the trunks to fence the
land where he grows cotton!
We do not want to share our wealth
with others. The Sukra Niti says that a man should give one fifth of his wealth
for the benefit of the poor. But instead we waste our money to show off our
wealth.
So, since human birth enables us to
attain moksha, this janma we have taken is our biggest wealth, and we must not
waste our days on this earth.
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