Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.23.17
Ūti· What drives us to actWealth Brings Anxiety at Every Stage
“In the earning, attainment, increase, protection, expense, loss and enjoyment of wealth, all men experience great labor, fear, anxiety and delusion.”
What the purport teaches
- Earning, obtaining and increasing wealth involve great labor.
- Protecting, spending and losing wealth also bring fear and anxiety.
- Even enjoying wealth is included among the activities accompanied by labor, fear, anxiety and delusion.
Try this today
Write down one money-related worry and identify whether it concerns earning, protecting, spending, losing or enjoying wealth.
Ask yourself
Which stage of handling wealth causes me the most anxiety?
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.