Money is one of the greatest paradoxes of human life. It can provide comfort, security, and opportunity. Yet it also becomes one of the deepest sources of: • anxiety • pride • attachment • conflict • spiritual blindness Indian saints rarely condemned wealth itself. Instead, they warned against wealth becoming the master rather than the servant. In the wisdom tradition of India, money is often treated like fire: • useful when controlled • destructive when worshipped Two voices separated by centuries express this truth with piercing clarity: • Adi Shankaracharya in Bhaja Govindam • Yogi Vemana in his Telugu moral-spiritual verses Both speak about wealth not as economics… But as a spiritual danger. This article explores how wealth becomes a tyranny, and how liberation begins when we see money clearly.