Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.23.24
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyShare Wealth With Its Proper Recipients
“One who fails to distribute his wealth to the proper shareholders — the demigods, sages, forefathers and ordinary living entities, as well as his immediate relatives, in-laws and own self — is maintaining his wealth simply like a Yakṣa and will fall down.”
What the purport teaches
- Wealth has proper shareholders: the demigods, sages, forefathers, ordinary living entities, immediate relatives, in-laws and oneself.
- Someone who fails to distribute wealth to these recipients maintains it merely like a Yakṣa and will fall down.
- One who neither shares wealth with the authorized recipients nor enjoys it personally will suffer unlimited problems in life.
Try this today
Share a small amount of money or a needed item with a relative whose needs you have overlooked.
Ask yourself
Am I holding on to resources while neglecting someone who should receive a share?
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.