verxy important indeed. We need money to buy
food and to pay our bills. In this modern world,
most of the things that we want, material or
otherwise, can be obtained in exchange for
money. Without money, one's life can become a
misery.
It is thus not surprising to find that many people
place money making as their top priority in life.
This attitude is fine as long as they remember
that there are other facets of life in which
money is not required. Quite often money cannot
buy these things at all. Take for example, one's
health: money can buy the best medical care
available, but if free basic attention has not been
paid to one's health which is allowed to
deteriorate, there will come a time when no
money in the world can return one to good
health. I, for one, prefer to be healthy than rich.
Nevertheless we do need money. So it is wise
for every able-bodied person to do some sort of
work so that he or she can be paid for the work
done. Subsequently, he or she can spend the
money buying necessary things.
I suppose that the work-in-exchange-for-money
practice works well in general. However for some
people, the lure of money becomes
overwhelming. Greed blinds them and they spend
their whole life pursuing money. The methods
employed in this pursuit are not subject to any
law or reason. As long as they make profit, they
will do it even though they might hurt themselves
and make enemies in the process. Time and
again we hear stories of people caught up with
this money-madness. The millionaire who dies of
starvation, the miser who would rather freeze
than spend some money on heating, the woman
who stuffs her money inside her mattresses only
to lose it all in a fire—the list is endless. All
these are examples of people who have allowed
money to be the most important thing in their
lives. They started out trying to make a living.
They ended up forgetting to live.
Most people that I have met lament about
money, or rather, the lack of it. They are always
trying to make ends meet. There is always an
unsettled bill to pay. It seems to me that this
situation occurs because diese people are
always living beyond their means. They must buy
another car, another house, a larger TV set, the
latest cell phone, etc. To remain in debt
becomes the vogue. Keeping up with die Society
is a very real social disease of our times. It
keeps the people slogging all their lives. It keeps
the banks and manufacturers happy.
Then there are people who want money but
indulge in foul means to acquire it. We have con-
men, thieves, kidnappers and gangsters operating
in the midst of society. Sometimes these felons
are caught and punished, but they will never be
eliminated completely. This is because our very
societal structure produces these criminals. We
are all taught from young to pursue money. We
grow up feeling that we must have money, and
how shameful it is to be poor. So we learn to
make money. Some of us learn skills and
knowledge—thus enabling them to make money
honestly. Some of us, either due to a lack of
ability or unforeseen circumstances, employ
socially unacceptable means of accumulating
money.
In conclusion I would say that virtually every
adult is after money-making in some form or the
other, be it earning an honest living or getting
money from the point of a gun, it is the degree
of the social acceptability of effort that is
exerted to obtain money that varies from person
to person. Each person has his/her choice—to
make and use money wisely, or to let money
become his master. In other words, it is left to
him/her to decide, whether he/she wants to lead
a rich balanced life where he thoroughly enjoys
his/her work and the fruits of his work; or he/she
wants to fill himself so much with money that
he/she forsakes his/her self and becomes
smothered by his/her riches.
Qoute from The True Charm & Power of Vedanta
Never say, "O Lord, I am a
miserable sinner." Who will
help you? You are the help of
the universe. What in this
universe can help you? What
can prevail over you? You are
the God of the universe; where
can you seek for help? Never
help came from anywhere but
from yourself. In your
ignorance, every prayer that you
made and that was answered,
you thought was answered by
some Being, but you answered
the prayer yourself
unknowingly. The help came
from yourself, and you fondly
imagined that someone was
sending help to you. There is no
help for you outside of yourself;
you are the creator of the
universe. Like the silkworm,
you have built a cocoon around
yourself. Who will save you?
Burst your own cocoon and
come out as a beautiful
butterfly, as the free soul. Then
alone you will see Truth.
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