Re: In which forms of Money is Kali present??

SB 1.17.38

suta uvaca
abhyathitas tada tasmai
sthanani kalaye dadau
dyutam panam striyah suna
yatradharmas catur-vidhah

Suta Goswami said: Maharaja Pariksit, thus being
petitioned by the personality of Kali, gave him
pemission to reside in places where gambling,
drinking, prostitution and animal slaughter were
performed.

This is from the end of Srila Prabhupada's purport to
this verse:

Gambling of all description, even speculative business
enterprise [this indicates the stock market], is
considered to be degrading, and when gambling is
encouraged in the state, there is a complete
disappearance of truthfulness.

  In the past, one business giant in the US was caught in a scam causing the whole stock market to crash. A few days back a prestigious company head in India admitted to fraud causing huge crashes and exposing how the stock market runs on gambling over money which is assumed to exist. There is no real money, but only speculative business enterprise.

  In the US the economy is credit based and most people buy everything on credit calculating about 4 years of their future earnings and spend the rest of their earnings in just paying off the debts. This is now happening to the developing countries following capitalist economy as well. The whole economy runs on credit and in the process of speculative marketing over anything and everything, artifical inflation is created raising all the prices. But when it is realised that the deficit has become so great that business cannot be carried on with credit anymore, then there is a huge crash in the economy, bank, stock market and all. Those who were gambling over the price rise and invested in the hope that the bubble will grow suddenly find all their fortunes washed away with the crash in prices. 

   Therefore this is no different from regular gambling, so Kali certainly resides in these places.

Hope this helps. By the way, can this thread be moved to 'Ask Spiritual Questions?'

Daaso'smi,
Srinath

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