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 WEALTH AND ITS ENJOYMENT. Wealth, if rightly used, is another great blessing for man. Without wealth, in other words, money, neither a kingdom nor a commercial body can be maintained. It is a blessing to be rich if a man be rightly disposed. If a man be rich he may have all sorts of comforts and enjoyments. He may gain many friends and may help the poor. Generally wealthy people among Hindus do not reap the same enjoyment from their wealth as the Western people do. Extravagant people only in this country enjoy themselves, and even that for a short time only. From two points of view such conduct is faulty. From the one it is seen they do not utilize their fortune in a proper manner, and from the other that they ruin themselves. In the Hindu Shastras it is said that one-fourth or one-fifth of a man's net income should be spent