All activities, whole labors of Homo sapiens gyrate around a single thing, a single word…… ‘Money’.
Famous or infamous to be the greatest comforter in the world, the story of money making the mare to go commences from the very childhood of a person’s life. From the early days of its life it comes home to the heart of a child that his mare of chocolates and candies can go only with the help of money. He devises the ways to get the money by hook or by crook; by crying or by imploring. His endless aspirations urge him to acquire as much capital as he could. As he becomes older his needs become greater eventually demanding more and more money and thus engrossing all his efforts around a single point of increasing his monetary stocks.
From cradle to grave man’s hankering for wealth never ends. He knows it well that the mare of his dreams will go only if he has the gear of coins in his hand.

Money is, no doubt, a miracle. It endows us with happiness, wipes our tears, soothes our wounds, makes our life mirthful and rosy, gives us laughter and joy and changes our dreams to reality. Though not for all of our problems, it is a panacea for most of them.

In the eyes of the world a rich man is wise man. He gathers most friends. His prosperity makes him smart enough to collect as much friends as he likes. Wealth, even in the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. The golden key of money opens up even the trickiest locks of troubles thus rightfully giving its owner the prestige of being intelligent.
Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. Those who struggle survive; those who shun effort become extinct. God says in His Holy book, ‘Man gets what he strives for’.

It is a part of the nature of humanity to struggle for better food, better clothes and better lodging and surely money making is one of its basic needs.
The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. Though money is a terrible master and an excellent servant yet we ought not allow it to overwhelm all our abilities and master whole of our life. It was rightfully said by some one that he does not posses wealth that allows it to posses him. Rightfully, if we command our wealth we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us we are poor indeed.

With out money we can’t even think of living a life of comfort and ease, so, yearning for wealth is a positive activity in itself but wealth shouldn’t be the ultimate end of all of our struggles. Money is like a serpent. If we know the trick to charm this creature it would be valuable for us but if we don’t know the mantra it would definitely bite us. Money has the seductive sting of engulfing all of our attention and abilities and at the end man becomes the epitome of the picture presented in the holy scriptures in the words of: ‘Although they posses more and more than enough yet they yearn for more’. This incessant urge for getting more is the real adversary of man’s spirituality.

Admittedly, money is a source of solving all riddles in our lives but we should always keep in mind that worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
The greatest wealth is contentment with little. While trying for better we should remain contended with whatever God has given us. With the following words of Andrew Young I would like to end my harangue:-

Can wealth give happiness?
Look around and see,
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.