Earnings should come from honest and fair business practices that provide appropriate goods at fair prices to benefit both owners and employees. While unfair practices may provide short-term gains, they will ultimately lead to legal and health issues that prevent enjoying the profits. Sacred and ethical work benefits society as a whole. Places of worship and donations of knowledge and food are intrinsic forms of giving that are for the common good. The ruler of Kochi donated gold temple items for a railway project, showing how offerings not made with compassion for others will not be accepted by God.

1. ECONOMICS of GIVING