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moral conduct of the society. The more honesty there is, the better humanity will be.

Maintenance of wealth and utilizing it in proper ways are more difficult than acquiring it. The first condition for utilizing wealth for proper ends is the acquisition of it through proper means. I do get upset when I see that some people are spending money on improper deeds. Learn more about how to spend when one is wealthy. When you earn, spend so that your expenditure benefits your nation, relatives and family! Spend so that your spirit becomes richer, your reputation grows, and your mind and knowledge expands! Strive to be consistent in your spending or using your wealth. Do not let additional spiritual benefits leave you by depending on one single such benefit. Work always, so that the spring of wealth continuously releases sources. Always focus on this issue. Wealth should make you closer to the ordinary people, rather than separating you from them. You need your mind to be rich. Buried money is of no use to you or society. That will only add to your fears, hesitations and doubts. It will ultimately cause problems for you.

Wealth that does not benefit the public is not real wealth. That is not Golden wealth, but an ordinary piece of iron. Wealth is not the pleasure of one’s self, but it is the interest of the public. If you utilize wealth for proper and righteous ends, it will grow. If you don’t, it will shrink. For the value of wealth will be evident after its proper use.

Avoid doing improper deeds with the wealth you have. That is the gravest of all sins. Investing money in the exchange of things that lead astray or corrupt people in fact does harm to one’s nation. For the gains you make out of such investment would only be a disaster that your own family would suffer from.


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