What is the use of having enormous wealth if one cannot derive any comforts and conveniences from it? Even if there is plenty of water in a lake, a dog can only lick the water and not drink from it. Similar is the fate of a miser. People today are endowed with all types of knowledge, wealth, and power, but what is the use? The wicked quality of greed makes all these things useless for them. Greed is limitless today due to the influence of Kali Yuga (the age we are in). One neither utilises the wealth for oneself nor shares it with others. It does not matter if one does not share one’s wealth with others, but one cannot also see others being happy. Even animals do not have the foolishness of concealing and the wicked quality of plundering. But these defects have become rampant in man today. Without getting rid of these defects, spiritual practices like japa, dhyana, and puja (chanting, meditation, and worship) become useless. Worship without love, devotion without faith is useless. One may not have any type of knowledge, one may not listen to the teachings of the sacred texts, or one may not understand their inner meaning, it is enough if one has love and faith. – Divine Discourse, Jul 15, 1996