Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.23.15
Ūti· What drives us to actMiserliness Brings Suffering, Not Happiness
“Generally, the wealth of misers never allows them any happiness. In this life it causes their self-torment, and when they die it sends them to hell.”
What the purport teaches
- The wealth of misers generally brings no happiness. Instead, it causes self-torment in this life.
- A miser fears spending money even on obligatory religious and social duties.
- By neglecting these duties, the miser offends God and people in general. The verse warns that this leads to hell after death.
Try this today
Fulfill one small religious or social obligation today that you have postponed out of miserliness.
Ask yourself
Am I avoiding a religious or social duty simply because I fear spending money?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.