PATH OF LIBERATION AND RENUNCIATION,
VERSE LIB 34
GIST
O Son of Prutha! A person who out of interest in righteousness, desires riches, receives and bears them, the determination and exuberance of such person are the Raajasa (King-like) type.
AADHYAAYA 18,
MOOKSHA SANYAASA YOOGA
S`LOOKA: MSY 34
Yayaa tu dharmakaamaarthaan
dhrutyaa dhaarayatee Arjuna
prasamgeena phalaakaamkshii
dhruti: saa paartha raajasii.
ybrao's view
*Kings or Regals or Royals have an urge to amass gold and precious stones.
*Money and riches serve three purposes: 1. satisfy wants, particularly necessities and comforts 2. provide wherewithal when a person becomes too old and too weak to work 3. enable a person to exercise power on others in the society using his purchasing power.
*A person desiring riches for meeting for the third need have tendencies to become arrogant, too-assertive and flamboyant. This arrogance, excess-assertiveness and flaboyant, all these we can include in a five letter word PRIDE. Pride is the meaning of 'rAjasa' delineated above.
*True Brahmins (Not birth-brahmins or the persons in the occupation of priesthood) cannot have 'rAjasa' or the temptation to income and wealth. But the Brahmins of the Mahabharata or the Bhagavadgita times had the greed for cows and gold.
*Bible too denounced wealth and richmen: Matthew 19034:
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.
*Quran 09034 too denounced accumulation of wealth:
"O you who believe! Lo! many of the (Jewish?) rabbis and the (Christian?) monks devour the wealth of mankind wantonly and debar (men) from the way of Allah. They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the way of God, unto them give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom".
*Fun is: the priest class of most religions Hinduism/Christianity/Islam had accumulated wealth in the past, while preaching contentment to others.
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