Akshaya Tritiya 2023: Decide Between Charity And Gold Purchase

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Buying gold on Akshaya Tritiya, as per the traditional belief, will bring you doubled benefits. It ushers prosperity and abundance into your life. When literally translated, Akshaya means " One that never diminishes." This is the belief behind the gold purchase that is extensively done on this day. The value of gold that is purchased on this day will never diminish and it will only grow and appreciate.

People can think of setting up a new business, purchasing their basic needs, or even houses and vehicles. This was the day on which scores of important events occurred. Lord Parashurama, was born on this day. This day is the birthday of great souls like Basavanna, Ramanujacharya, and Adi Shankara, Chinmayananda, and Lord Buddha.

Introspect And Start The Process Of Self Purification

Narada Muni has opined that the effect of whatever task we do on this day, will double in intensity, be it bad or good. So the learned advice is to encourage positive thinking and to be cheerful. As times changed and materialism sank in, people started looking out for Gold accumulation and started buying gold on this day. Gold has auspicious connotations as per Hindu traditions and the Akshaya Tritiya vrat includes this belief whereas actually in reality, Akshaya Tritiya is meant more for self-purification and contemplation. There are plenty of other good things we can think of doing, when it comes to the day of Akshaya Tritiya, apart from just buying gold and hoarding it.

Think A Little Beyond..

Let us think a little beyond gold and dig for the really valuable stuff. Materialistic comforts do not come a long way. They do not follow us beyond death up to the afterlife. When it comes to money and relationship, we attach more value to relationships as they are true and last longer. But everything in this world including relationships is temporary as they too do not last up to death or up to the afterlife. If you value your loved ones more than your valuables, it is perfectly fine but they come with you only up to the grave and not beyond it. So it is better to rely on what follows us all the time and straighten our equation with it right away.

Karmas, good and bad, follow us wherever we are, at any point in time and space. So let us focus on accumulating more good karma so that good results will follow us always. We have plenty of other good measures to do on this sacred day.

Do These Measures On Akshaya Tritiya

1. Charity is a great idea for this day as your good deed returns back to you manifold now or some time or the other.

2. During the scorching summer season, donate a vessel of water so that it quenches the thirst of people or even animals around you.

3. Prepare Jaggery or sweet roti and feed it to cows. Serving a cow equals the punya of doing hundred different good deeds. So consider the Go mata.

4. Barley can be a good choice to consider buying. Donate barley to Vishnu or a Brahmin, The results will come back a thousandfold. Donating barley is equal to donating an equal portion of Gold. You remember Kuchela offered a handful of cereals that were left in his house, to Lord Krishna on this same day of Akshaya Tritiya.

5. To see it from a more practical angle, during these times of ill health and covid, you could possibly donate medicines to the needy as it is sat karma and an act of goodwill that will save a life and hence gets you a huge measure of punya. Your good karma will come help to you just when you need it.

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