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aushadhdaan (donate medicines), etc.; abhaydaan is the best type of donation. That is why it is very essential to be careful in minimising the pains to all the jeevas in one's day to day life. How one gets money, whether by punya or by efforts? Answer - The contribution of punya is more and the contribution of efforts or perseverance is less. Because the person who takes birth in a wealthy family, gets money without any efforts and on the contrary, many people are seen losing money in their business in spite of working very hard to make their business successful. Efforts are necessary to earn money, but how much? Some people earn too much money with very little efforts whereas others earn very little money with too much of hard work or efforts; so it is certain that money has more proneness to punya than perseverance or efforts. Therefore those who believe it is necessary to work hard to earn money, even they may put at the most half of their time to earn money and they should give at least half of their time to the real dharma/ religion. The logical reason for this is that due to practising the real dharma/religion one can eradicate karmas of infinite lives and besides
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