Isn’t the Goswamis’ having boatful of gold atyahara?

From Subramanian

Athyahara means accumulating more than necessary. A vaishnava should  keep only what is necessary for upkeep for daytoday existence. In this context how do we understand , Rupa and Sanathan Goswami accumulating boat loads of  gold?

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Question from Subramanyam Prabhu.
Atyahar means accumulating more than necessary. A Vaishna should keep only what is necessary for upkeep for day-to-day existence. In this context, how do we understand Rupa and Sanatana Goswami accumulating boatloads of gold? Answer.
What is atyahar for different people will vary depending on their social, cultural positions. So if we apply a simplistic notion of atyahar, then all the kings who are considered to be Rajya Rishis, Maharaja Parikshit, they will all be considered to be atyaharis because they all lived in opulence. So actually, the essential problem with atyahar is that because of the desire to accumulate more, one gets into prayas, one does over-endeavor.
And that over-endeavor distracts one from practicing spiritual life. One doesn’t have the time, the peace of mind, and the interest to practice spiritual life if one gets into prayas. So atyahar for a Kshatriya will be different from atyahar for a Brahmana.
And atyahar for a Vaishna and a Shudra will accordingly be different. The Vedic culture has different standards and different definitions of success for different people. So Rupa and Sanatana Goswami were administrators in Nawab Hussain Shah’s administration.
They were ministers, prime minister and finance minister, and they were Kshatriyas. And Kshatriyas are expected to have wealth. It is Kshatriya’s duty to never refuse charity whenever asked for.
Kshatriyas are expected to maintain Brahmanas. Now if you look at what Rupa and Sanatana did, even within Nawab Hussain Shah’s kingdom, in their own palaces they had made Vrindavan over there. And they were protecting and supporting the Brahmanas and Vaishnavas during that period in history when they were otherwise persecuted by the Leksha rulers.
So even when Yudhishthira was being dispossessed of the wealth through the gambling fixed match, at that time Yudhishthira protested, Why do you want to take away from me the wealth that is meant to serve the Brahmanas? So actually speaking, Rupa and Sanatana Goswami’s huge wealth was not against the principle of Atyar because they were in a social position as Kshatriyas where they are expected to have a lot of wealth. And they were using it according to Kshatriya Dharma for sharing, for protecting and sharing spiritual culture. And it did not lead them to prayas.
They were not over-endeavoring so much that they did not have time to practice spiritual life. So that’s how we understand what is Atyar. If it distracts us from spiritual life, if it infatuates us so much that we can’t do our spiritual duties, then it goes in the zone of Atyar.
Otherwise devotees can earn wealth and then they can use wealth in Krishna’s service. If somebody has talent to earn a lot of wealth, then it is not that the person has to live in poverty just to follow the principle of Atyar. The important point is that we don’t get obsessed by our material duties or material ambitions and let our consciousness get sucked into them.
Thank you.