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One who undertakes auspicious actions without understanding the underlying logic of wealth may suffer delusion whether dealing with friends or foes.
One should request help from friends only when in possession or prosperity; when not asking, one learns the true value or superficiality of friendship...
A servant devoted to preserving the king’s wealth, discerning duties, and skilled in both negotiation and conflict is the ideal advisor to a king.
People possessing wealth are praised, those without are criticized—this phenomenon extends even to sheep herds. So what wonder is there among humans?
What merit is there in a wealthy man who refuses to give to those in need? Wealth has only one proper use—charity. Otherwise, it leads only to calamit...
Only the wealthy are honored in this world by their friends and kin; the poor, though living, are treated as if they are dead.
A wealthy man, even of a low lineage, is most honored in society, whereas a noble-born but poor man is ridiculed.
If wealth must be preserved at all costs, then why couldn’t Harishchandra, a noble king, preserve his? He gave it up for truth and righteousness.
Dharma, even at the cost of one's life, was protected by noble kings like Shibi and sages like Dadhichi—this is the ideal upheld over generations.
Wealth accumulation leads to delusion and sorrow. Hence, for a seeker of true good, wealth is to be avoided like poison.
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