Religion is not meant for economic solution

[jaimin]

Bhagavata says that for economic solution... religion is not meant for
economic solution. Economic solution is there, either you be religious
or not religious. In God's kingdom there is wheat, there is rice,
there is water, rainfall, and the production. Everything is there.
There is fruit, there is flower. So either you be religious or not
religious, it doesn't matter. Your economic problem is settled
already. Just like in the prisonhouse, they are all criminals. That
does not mean they will starve to death. The government has all
arrangement to feed them. Similarly, although this material world is
prisonhouse, all criminals are here, revolt, to a person are here,
those who do not care for God. But still, their fooding problem, their
lodging problem is there by arrangement of God. Everything is there.
So Bhagavata says, dharmasya hy apavargyasya nartho 'rthayopakalpate
[SB 1.2.9]. Don't execute religious principles for making your
economic problem solved. Then? "We require some money." Yes. "What
for?" Narthasya dharmaikantasya kamo labhaya hi smrtah. And even if
you get money, that is not for your sense gratification. Narthasya
dharmaikantasya. If you are religious, really, actually, a man of
religiosity, then your money is not for sense gratification, as we are
teaching our boys. They are working hard, they are getting money and
they are spending for Krsna. You see? Because they have understood
that "My energy spent for Krsna's cause is really utilized. And if I
utilize my energy for sense gratification, then I am cats and dogs."

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Conversation Including Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.1-34 Recitation & Explanation -- April 1, 1969, San Francisco