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is no fan. An air-conditioner is out of question. Until we change passion, the five-star hotel would continue occupying the mind. The reality is that man does not live in a five-star hotel, the fivestar hotel lives in his mind.
A king asked an ascetic, “You lived in the palace and I also lived in the palace, then what is the difference?" The ascetic responded, “There was not much of difference. The only difference was that I lived in your palace and the palace lived in your mind. The tradition of sadhana was necessary to get the palace out of the mind. If we go through the process, the change would come. Today there is a great need to pursue this reality. Only when the motivation to devotion grows, there would be a real change within.
Question: What are the ideas of Mahavira, Gandhi, Marx and Keynes with regard to earning and disposal of wealth? What form should the transfer take?
Answer: Mahavira's entire thinking proceeds on the transfer of wealth. Mahavira does not give any method of earning. He starts his thinking with disposal. Earning wealth is in the nature of man, it is his necessity, he cannot escape from it. That man would have to do in any case. The real issue is, after earning, how should the disposal of wealth be accomplished. Mahavira starts from here. Gandhiji, while being a spiritual personality, was also a political personality. He talks about disposal of wealth through the medium of trusteeship and about earning in the form of a system for upliftment of all. These are his two concepts. The idea of Marx is all about disposal of wealth. There is no earning under his system. All property belongs to the state. In this sense, it would seem that there is much similarity between him and Mahavira's thinking. In Keynes view, there is nothing like disposal; it is earning and earning alone in his scheme of things. All earning and earning to an extent that there is no limit, that is what he prescribed.
We should take earning in the from of cooperative endeavour. Earning and disposal of wealth have to be relative to each other.
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