You can adopt any honest livelihood to maintain yourself and your family. To live on food given by others is a great humiliation. You must endeavour to spend a minimum of one-fiftieth of your income on public service. Spending one’s entire earnings on oneself and one’s direct family will gradually lead to crudeness. No one should utilize fine arts for material benefits; but in case of extreme financial hardship of a family, the rigidity of this rule may be temporarily relaxed after consulting the concerned ácárya/á.