According to the line of Rigved 10/34/10 — the wife of a gambler suffers grave
hardships. His mother keeps weeping. He is always sunk under debt and entering
other people's homes, steals money from there, Gambling is a very obscene addiction. One must also save himself from it.
Superficially it appears that dishonesty is necessary for earning quickly and
more. Most wealthy person seems to be working with dishonesty in their work.
Most honest persons appear poor. Therefore, by ordinary understanding it
appears that if we also remain honest then we shall become poor. There is
tremendous importance of money in the present times and only with money can
comforts, facilities, means success and honor be achieved. That is why people
are busy in becoming wealthy very quickly through dishonesty or some such
means.
But
if the situation is studied closely, this distortion in thinking vanishes and
we come to know that we made a great mistake in accepting the glory of
dishonesty. Wealth cannot be earned in this way and if earned so, then it
cannot be maintained steadily. When does not mean that the result will be
beneficial only. Daring, hard work, insight and understanding, pleasant talk
and organizing ability are the qualities which contribute to earning. The
earning with the sweat of one's brow is pure as nectar. Only bad name, non
cooperation, distrust, hatred, state punishment, dejection etc, result from
money earned through dishonest and improper means. Real earning is made only through
good qualities contain the elements of productivity. Big projects, big trades,
big plans in this world have been established and succeeded only on the basis
of honesty. Not with wealth, but with good intelligence and good activity only
progress is achieved. A man of good character (and not a man with wealth)
becomes happy.
The
addictions of gambling and lottery are also spreading wide on the basis of
quick money through any means. Every man wishes to become wealthy by earning
the maximum money in the shortest time. This act goes against the tenets of
religious book and is a condemnable act. It leads to internal division and
leads to quarrel. To bet with one another on the slightest excuse, and
speculation and similar act re various forms of gambling only. Its addiction
destroys the essential purpose of man's life. He is busy only with one thought
that, if not today, certainly tomorrow the number on which he bets, will win
and whirling in this vicious circle, he bets more and more. As a result he goes
on wasting away his wealth. Whereas he does not get the wealth of a win, he
loses whatever he has got. In the ensuing hopelessness man starts sealing his
family's ornaments, utensils, and even clothes and puts the money on bets. Becoming
poverty stricken, the person even resorts to suicide. In addition, the family
undergoes hell.
Because
of gambling only, Dharmaraj Yudhishthir along with his brothers had to become a
slave of Duryodhan and had to undergo the terrible torture of witnessing the
evil Duryodhan trying to disrobe his wife Draupadi. Gambling produces such
horrendous results only.
If
you wish personal welfare, never gamble in any way. Reject it completely.
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