How To Earn Money Righteously? The Right Way And Challenges

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First of all, we should think about our duty. If you do the business of selling medicines, you should not sell fake medicines. If you are a doctor, you should not cheat patients for money. If you are a teacher, teach students with complete dedication, avoiding gossiping around and wasting time. The same thing applies to every profession. Just consider every duty of yours as a service to God, chant the name of God while performing the duty, and make sure that there is no fraud and injustice in it.

Should You Cheat Others For Money?

If you know the medicine is fake but think you will earn a lot of profit by selling it, then you are doing wrong. You know that the patient can be cured with the right medicine but if you want to make bills for a long time, then you are doing wrong. You know that the government is paying you to teach good conduct to the students but you are not giving time to the students and spending that time in gossiping, in this way you are wasting your time. You must perform your prescribed duty. Perform your duty, dedicate it to God and chant the name of God. If you do this, you are a great soul, even in ordinary garb.

Performing your duty is the ideal way to earn money. If there is a goldsmith and a customer brings gold to make jewellery, the goldsmith should make jewellery with that gold honestly and without adulteration. Goldsmiths should not convert real gold into fake jewellery. They can charge a fixed fee for their job. You can sell your product at a high price, but cheating or adulteration is wrong. If you perform your duty properly, it will become the path to take you to God. This will make God happy, and you will attain God.

The Consequences Of Immorality And Deception

A lot of wrong things are happening these days. Only a few people are doing their business as their prescribed duty, otherwise there is some adulteration, fraud and lying everywhere. These people do not give adulterated things to their families but sell them to others. However, the money earned by this fraud is hazardous and can cause destruction. So, do not look at the immediate profit; look at the future profit for you and your family. If you indulge in unrighteousness, you may see immediate profit, but it will ruin your and your family’s future.

Do Not Misuse Money

Do not take intoxicants, indulge in improper conduct, or eat improper food. We should save money and use it in the service of our family and society; only then will we get the ultimate happiness. Drinking alcohol, eating meat, harassing women by misusing money, and gambling—all these behaviours will never make you happy.

Drinking alcohol spoils your health and your reputation in society and your family. If you think that gambling can make you a millionaire or billionaire, then know that no one has been able to live a happy or peaceful life with the money earned through gambling. When King Yudhishthir gambled, he had to see his wife Draupadi being insulted in the royal court. He had to suffer twelve years of exile. We have got human life to achieve supreme bliss. Earn money righteously, live happily and always chant Radha-Radha. Chanting Radha-Radha does not cost even a single penny.

Guidance By – Pujya Shri Hit Premanand Ji Maharaj