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Haribol, Certainly stock market trading needs to be avoided. The argument that as long as the money earned is used for Krishna Consciousness is not a right and positive thinking. Bhakti Vinod Thakur says that we have to elevate our consciousness from ignorance to passion and from passion to goodness and then Shuddha Satva If one is new to krishnaConsciousness and working in stock market trading initially it is good idea to use his income for Krishna but continuing to earn income in the same manner on the pretext of offering it to Krishna may not be desirable.. Forgive me if any offences ys -manavata

Haribol Bruz, Honest Income is almost like one of the four regulative principles. This is as difficult as any other four regulative principles are. These things prepare a perfect base and groundwork to practice krishna consciousness and hence if pursued would help us a lot in our progress. Forgive me if any offences ys -manavata http://www.manavatavikas.org

Haribol, Certainly this should be avoided as this is one of the forms of gambling. May be enrolling in ESPP and selling as soon as they mature may be ok. forgive me if any offences -manavata

In the holy book of Mahabharata, Sri Vidura tells ,” O king Dhritharastra, one should never think of earning material wealth through wrong means like falsehood, bribe, corruption, stealing etc, not to speak of practicing such evils. Wrongly earned money pollutes its possessor to such an extent that, all the activities done with such sinful wealth result in harmful troubles. Even the praise worthy acts like charity, worship, sacrifices etc done by such sinful income produce undesirable results. No amount of purificatory means can set right the defects of ill-begotten wealth There is much more to learn about Honest Income. Pls do take some time to visit http://manavatavikas.org/HonestIncome.html Pls look into the entire site for much more Enlightened articles