Message of the Day - How should we use things - பொருட்களை திறன்பட உபயோகப்படுத்துதல்

People use something which gets dirty and is spoilt in becoming dirty, or they forget to clean it or neglect it, because all this takes time. There is a kind of respect for the object one has, which must make one treat it with much consideration and try to preserve it as long as possible, not because one is attached to it and desires it, but because an object is something respectable which has sometimes cost a lot of effort and labour in the producing and so must as a result be considered with the respect due to the work and effort put into it. There are people who have nothing, who don’t even have the things which are absolutely indispensable, and who are compelled to make them in some way for their personal use. I have seen people of this kind who, with much effort and ingenuity had managed to make for themselves certain things which are more or less indispensable from the practical point of view. Many people here are like that. I won’t tell you their names but I know them well. There are many like that. They have a right to something, they will ask for it even if they don’t need it, because they have the right. This indeed is... well, in fact it is... an attitude... we won’t qualify it.  There is also the miser who fills his chest with pieces of gold and never uses them. Gold does not rot, otherwise truly it rots morally, because something that does not circulate becomes very ill.  - Questions and Answers, 1955 நாம் கையாள்கின்ற பொருள்களை அசுத்தமாகவும், தாறுமாறாகவும் வைத்திருந்தால், அவை அந்தப் பொருள்களைப் பெரிதும் பாதிக்கின்றன. அதன் காரணமாக அவை நமக்குப் போதிய பலனைத் தர விரும்புவதில்லை. அவற்றைத் தூய்மையாகவும், சீராகவும் வைத்துக்கொண்டால், அவை நமக்குப் பெரும் பலனைத் தருவதோடு, பன்மடங்காகப் பெருகவும் செய்கின்றன. - கர்மயோகி  அவர்கள்