In his seminal or epic findings, Indian freedom fighter Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi unveiled the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and this narrative explores only one of them, deemed necessary now, given prevailing realities, which is acquiring or obtaining ‘wealth without work.’

What’s wrong with acquiring wealth without work? Let’s face it, who on earth wants to toil, especially on fallow ground, to try and eke a living when there is a possibility of acquiring wealth without having to raise a sweat.

Acquiring wealth without work is a sparkling, dreamy and heady sensation to those who do not want to build their wealth and fortune by going through the mill, in the process, avoiding hardship, suffering and pain.

But the truth of the matter is that wealth without work can be meaningless and, therefore, the hardship, suffering and pain that is extracted from our labour gives our success in achieving wealth great value, meaning and purpose.

Those who don’t believe this truth have only to put it to the test and find that Ghandi’s assertion is true, that wealth without work is a sin or to put it into modern day perspective, it is a wrongdoing and a person must never accept wealth he or she has not worked for in life.

When wealth is acquired by hard work, integrity and due diligence, it lasts and it prospers and multiplies manifold, unlike wealth that is obtained through deceit, falsehood or fraudulent ways which destroys and damages a person.

-THE MALAYSIA VOICE