DAY 293
Wealth Goes One of Three Ways: Given, Used, or Lost
기원후 4세기~중세 편찬(전통적으로 차나키야에 귀속)
ORIGINAL
दानं भोगो नाशस्तिस्रो गतयो भवन्ति वित्तस्य । यो न ददाति न भुङ्क्ते तस्य तृतीया गतिर्भवति ॥ (dānaṃ bhogo nāśas tisro gatayo bhavanti vittasya, yo na dadāti na bhuṅkte tasya tṛtīyā gatir bhavati)
📜 THE VERSE
Wealth has only three destinies — giving, spending, or vanishing. For one who neither gives nor spends, wealth takes the third path: it simply disappears.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
What I am clinging to — is it truly being kept safe, or just waiting for the day it disappears?
📝Reflection
Hoarding wealth seems safe, but this verse breaks that illusion. Wealth neither given nor spent eventually disappears quietly — through fire, theft, inheritance disputes, or inflation. This insight, that clutching is not the same as keeping, makes us reconsider how to use what we already have.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Take one thing you have only been clutching, and either give it away or actually use it today.
📖 Source:
Subhashita (Traditional Sanskrit Maxims).
Sanskrit original with public-domain translations consulted; rendered independently by ONGO.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
