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Money Flowing - Money Matters
Sometime ago, a man came to one of my teacher for some advice. He was
depressed and broken and wanted to commit suicide. Why? Because about five
years ago, he was worth three thousand crores. Then he traded in the stock
market and things went a little wrong, and his worth dived a little bit. When
he came to me, he was worth only two hundred
and fifty crores. So he wanted to commit suicide.
And the master uttered,"In most of the cases, if you give any one too much money and tell them, “Do you want the money
or do you want to go to heaven,” he will ask for the money. If you keep money in your pocket, it is great. But if it enters your
head, it becomes misery because that is not its place. That is what happend to this guy who lost money and broken down totally."
What we
need in the world is not just “wealth creation.” We need to create wellbeing. Wealth is just one of the tools towards human
wellbeing, not the whole of it. Wealth means making the outside pleasant for
ourselves. But right now, people are going at it like it is a religion. Money
is just a means; it is not an end by itself. We are making it too big for
nothing. Is it bad? Is it good? It is neither; it is just a tool that we
created.
We must
understand that no one is aspiring for money. That may sound ridiculous, but I
am saying it is not the money that they want. It is just that money has
become the means for what they consider as a better life.
Everyone
wants their life to be pleasant. When we say pleasant, pleasantness happens in
five different ways. If your body becomes very pleasant we call it pleasure. If
your mind becomes pleasant, we call it peace; if it becomes very pleasant we call it joy. If your
emotions become pleasant we call it love; if they become very pleasant we call it compassion. If your
life energies become pleasant we call it bliss, and if they become very
pleasant we call it ecstasy. If your surroundings become pleasant, you call it success. This is all you
want, isn’t it? “No, I want to go to heaven.” Why do you want to go to heaven –
because the “advertisements” have always said it is a very pleasant place. All
you want is pleasantness, and right now you believe that in this world, money
can buy it for you, which is partially correct.
But money
can only create external pleasantness, it cannot create inner pleasantness. If
you have a lot of money, you can stay in a five-star hotel, but if your body,
mind, emotions and energy are not pleasant, would you enjoy your five-star
hotel? No. If these four are very pleasant, you could even enjoy yourself under
a tree. Does that mean you should not have money? No, but the priority should
be considered – which should come first? If these four things within you are
very pleasant, and you also have money, you can make the outside also pleasant.
So there is nothing right or wrong about money. It is a certain means. It is
just that if money does not stay in your pockets and goes into your head,
misery will come.
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