SB 11.23.18-19— Theft, violence, speaking lies, duplicity, lust, anger, perplexity, pride, quarreling, enmity, faithlessness, envy and the dangers caused by women, gambling and intoxication are the fifteen undesirable qualities that contaminate men because of greed for wealth. Although these qualities are undesirable, men falsely ascribe value to them. One desiring to achieve the real benefit of life should therefore remain aloof from undesirable material wealth.
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that much about material wealth.
anyway, have a look how poverty stricken vaishnava can easy get lords mercy:
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SB 10.88.8— The Personality of Godhead said: If I especially favor someone, I gradually deprive him of his wealth. Then the relatives and friends of such a poverty-stricken man abandon him. In this way he suffers one distress after another.
SB 10.88.9— When he becomes frustrated in his attempts to make money and instead befriends My devotees, I bestow My special mercy upon him.
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considering proud as a big problem nowadays for vaishnavas , look how poverty is a medicine for it:
SB 10.10.15— A poverty-stricken man must automatically undergo austerities and penances because he does not have the wealth to possess anything. Thus his false prestige is vanquished. Always in need of food, shelter and clothing, he must be satisfied with what is obtained by the mercy of providence. Undergoing such compulsory austerities is good for him because this purifies him and completely frees him from false ego.
SB 10.10.16— Always hungry, longing for sufficient food, a poverty-stricken man gradually becomes weaker and weaker. Having no extra potency, his senses are automatically pacified. A poverty-stricken man, therefore, is unable to perform harmful, envious activities. In other words, such a man automatically gains the results of the austerities and penances adopted voluntarily by saintly persons.
SB 10.10.17— Saintly persons may freely associate with those who are poverty-stricken, but not with those who are rich. A poverty-stricken man, by association with saintly persons, very soon becomes uninterested in material desires, and the dirty things within the core of his heart are cleansed away.
SB 10.10.18— Saintly persons [sādhus] think of Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours a day. They have no other interest.
Why should people neglect the association of such exalted spiritual personalities and try to associate with materialists, taking shelter of nondevotees, most of whom are proud and rich?
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Interact more with Vaishnavas, I have seen that service to "pure devotees" is a quick and long lasting fix to this problems!!
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SB 11.23.18-19 — Theft, violence, speaking lies, duplicity, lust, anger, perplexity, pride, quarreling, enmity, faithlessness, envy and the dangers caused by women, gambling and intoxication are the fifteen undesirable qualities that contaminate men because of greed for wealth. Although these qualities are undesirable, men falsely ascribe value to them. One desiring to achieve the real benefit of life should therefore remain aloof from undesirable material wealth.
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that much about material wealth.
anyway, have a look how poverty stricken vaishnava can easy get lords mercy:
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Hare Krsna Prabhuji,
PAMHO.
One solution to all problems - attentive and effective chanting of the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra.
Haribol,
Your servant,
Rashmi