FOUR REGULATIVE DISCIPLINARY PRINCIPLES FOR DEVOTEES - NO GAMBLING
REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE-2:
NO GAMBLING:
Next Regulation is ‘Gambling’! What is gambling? A simplified definition for gambling, in my view is: “Whichever game/ profession that takes the money of others as a whole and gives them to a single person wthout the mental/ physical hard work of that person”. I think, no body can refute this definition! Why I say so? Krishna expects us to work! Not to sit idle & earn without hard work!
Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita (3-30): “Perform your assigned duties (i) Surrendering all yr works unto Me, (ii)with full knowledge of Me, (iii)without desires of profit, (iv)with no claims of propritoriship, and (v) free from lethargy!”
What this means? We should do the duties assigned to us! THAT MEANS, WE SHOULD NOT DO OTHER PROHIBITED DUTIES TO EARN! What are assigned duties? Let us have a simple definition:
Any work/ job/ business that is legal (Not this materialistic Govts’ rules! Rules of Dharma!) and that do not make others affected, is a permitted one! You must earn by serving others! Not by spoiling others!
Teachers teach others & earn;
Kirana (General stores)/ Vegetables traders supply essentials & earn!
Doctors save lives & earn!
Security men secure the zone & earn!
Weavers supply clothes/dress that saves our dignity & earn!
Druggists supply drugs & earn!
Farmers supply food for us & earn!
Dhoodhwala(Milkmen) gives milk & earn!
Many are serving the govt to maintain the country & earn!
Thus, any job/business that is helpful others & you are naturally inherited or interested (Not by the compulsion) is considered as Assigned dutiy! Krishna supports such people who are doing assigned duties! These people have no barrier in Krishna Consciousness!
But, the jobs that involves Speculation, is prohibitted by Sastras! What are they?
(i) Gambling like Cards, Dice, Match fixing or speculation in Sports/ Politics about who will win this match/ election, etc;
(ii) Lending money for others for higher interest than permitted by the government;
(iii) Lotteries (money of lakhs of people goes to a single person without works)
(iv)Share trading in unusual means (because it artificially increases the market rates). If you just invest in a share and trade it after a few years, without the intention of artificially increasing that share value, it can be added in the permissible trade, because you are considered as a partner/ shareholder, not a share player to exploit the market.
(v) Real Estate if you sell the price of the land beyond the guideline value of the govt. However, Exploiting in the Share Market & Real Estate businesses have become popular now, as this is kali Yug! People creates layouts on the land owned by Krishna, and claim that they are the owners! They fix rates whatever they want! They manipulate Krishna’s Property uncontrollably and hence most of the poor remain on platforms!
Gambling puts one into anxiety & fuels greed, envy & anger! Devotees should avoid T.V, Films, Sports, Useless Songs, etc
So, when there are hundreds of options for earning in permissible professions, why should we go to gambling/ Speculations that disappoint others?
DO ANY PROFESSION THAT MAKES OTHERS LIVE & HAPPY, NOT THAT SPOILS OTHERS!
Understood?
Read all the other four parts in this topic in other posts for a clear understanding:
(2) FOUR REGULATIVE DISCIPLINARY PRINCIPLES FOR DEVOTEES - NO MEAT EATING
NO GAMBLING:
Next Regulation is ‘Gambling’! What is gambling? A simplified definition for gambling, in my view is: “Whichever game/ profession that takes the money of others as a whole and gives them to a single person wthout the mental/ physical hard work of that person”. I think, no body can refute this definition! Why I say so? Krishna expects us to work! Not to sit idle & earn without hard work!
Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita (3-30): “Perform your assigned duties (i) Surrendering all yr works unto Me, (ii)with full knowledge of Me, (iii)without desires of profit, (iv)with no claims of propritoriship, and (v) free from lethargy!”
What this means? We should do the duties assigned to us! THAT MEANS, WE SHOULD NOT DO OTHER PROHIBITED DUTIES TO EARN! What are assigned duties? Let us have a simple definition:
Any work/ job/ business that is legal (Not this materialistic Govts’ rules! Rules of Dharma!) and that do not make others affected, is a permitted one! You must earn by serving others! Not by spoiling others!
Teachers teach others & earn;
Kirana (General stores)/ Vegetables traders supply essentials & earn!
Doctors save lives & earn!
Security men secure the zone & earn!
Weavers supply clothes/dress that saves our dignity & earn!
Druggists supply drugs & earn!
Farmers supply food for us & earn!
Dhoodhwala(Milkmen) gives milk & earn!
Many are serving the govt to maintain the country & earn!
Thus, any job/business that is helpful others & you are naturally inherited or interested (Not by the compulsion) is considered as Assigned dutiy! Krishna supports such people who are doing assigned duties! These people have no barrier in Krishna Consciousness!
But, the jobs that involves Speculation, is prohibitted by Sastras! What are they?
(i) Gambling like Cards, Dice, Match fixing or speculation in Sports/ Politics about who will win this match/ election, etc;
(ii) Lending money for others for higher interest than permitted by the government;
(iii) Lotteries (money of lakhs of people goes to a single person without works)
(iv)Share trading in unusual means (because it artificially increases the market rates). If you just invest in a share and trade it after a few years, without the intention of artificially increasing that share value, it can be added in the permissible trade, because you are considered as a partner/ shareholder, not a share player to exploit the market.
(v) Real Estate if you sell the price of the land beyond the guideline value of the govt. However, Exploiting in the Share Market & Real Estate businesses have become popular now, as this is kali Yug! People creates layouts on the land owned by Krishna, and claim that they are the owners! They fix rates whatever they want! They manipulate Krishna’s Property uncontrollably and hence most of the poor remain on platforms!
Gambling puts one into anxiety & fuels greed, envy & anger! Devotees should avoid T.V, Films, Sports, Useless Songs, etc
So, when there are hundreds of options for earning in permissible professions, why should we go to gambling/ Speculations that disappoint others?
DO ANY PROFESSION THAT MAKES OTHERS LIVE & HAPPY, NOT THAT SPOILS OTHERS!
Understood?
Read all the other four parts in this topic in other posts for a clear understanding:
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