Acquiring of Wealth

1. By energetic striving
2. Amassed by strength of arm
3. Won by sweat
4. Lawful and lawfully gotten
 

1. Happiness of oneself, parents, children and wife, servant and workmen, friends and          comrades.
2. Secure his wealth against the misfortunes.
3. Offering to his relatives, guests, departed petas, rajah and the deva.
4. Offers to the recluses and Brahmins.
 

When a person of integrity acquires lavish wealth, he provides for the pleasure and satisfaction of his …

1. own,
2. parents,
3. wife and children,
4. slaves, servants and assistants; and friends.
5. He institutes for priests and contemplatives offerings of supreme aim, heavenly, resulting in happiness, leading to heaven.
 

1. Fire
2. Water
3. Thieves
4. Kings
5. Hateful heirs
 

1. He provides his mother and father; his children, his wife, his slaves, servants, and assistants with pleasure and satisfaction.

2. He provides his friends and associates with pleasure and satisfaction.

3. He wards off from calamities coming from fire, flood, kings, thieves, or hateful heirs and keeps himself safe.

4. He performs the five obligations: to relatives, guests, the dead, kings and devas.

5. He institutes offerings of supreme aim, heavenly, resulting in happiness, leading to heaven, given to priests and contemplatives who abstain from intoxication and heedlessness, who endure all things with patience and humility, each taming himself, each restraining himself, each taking himself to unbinding.
 

1. A blind man

- he has to eyes  but cannot see
- he has no eye to see the opportunity to gain wealth
- he has no eye to differentiate between spiritual and mundane, good/bad, proper/improper, wholesome/unwholesome, skillful/unskillful, fine/not fine.

2. One-eye-man

- he knows how to gain, maintain and increase wealth but
- he does not have the eye to differentiate between good and bad / he has no moral value / principle / guidance.

3. Two-eye man

- he is resourceful in both acquiring wealth and the wisdom to differentiate between wholesome and unwholesome.

Of the three, the one-eye-man is the most dangerous.
 

“In every case where a family cannot hold onto its great wealth for long, it is for one or another of these four reasons:-

1. They don’t look for things that are lost.
2. They don’t repair things that have gotten old.
3. They are immoderate in consuming food and drink.
4. They lace a woman or man of no virtue or principles in the position of authority.