Many people make money. Only some people make money which will be useful and helpful to society. One woman told me “in my younger days my parents used to save money, they used to say that it will be useful for the future. Actually they bought land, which we lost money in the end. We never enjoyed money because we were supposed to save”.
I know a man who eats old food and will give minimum money to his wife because of his obsession for savings. He has given 100 sovereigns of gold to his daughter besides the vast amount of land he possessed. What is the use? He can not enjoy his life or his wealth. He makes money dead.
There are two kinds of money: live money and dead money. When you make money, are enjoying the money, do make life better, make people’s life happy, you fulfil the wishes of others, can take a holiday without thinking of the future then that money is the live money.
If it is a dead money, then people do not enjoy money, they think of tomorrow which never comes, they save in the hope of tomorrow which mostly never comes, their earnings are spent on medicine, hospitals and someone will steal it from them.
I know one homeopathy doctor who made a lot of money and was well known for her stinginess. One day, a bunch of robbers came to her house, tied her and took away nearly to the tune of seven lakhs.
I know a man who used to squeeze his family and he never had increments. Every job he went to was lower than his previous one. The reason is that he employs the squeeze cycle with his family members. Contentment and frugality can be accepted. But then people torture others. See this famous dialogue; one lady wanted a slipper of some good quality. Her husband asked her why she wanted to waste money and why not wear a cheaper one. He added “any way you are old and what is the use of you being attractive”.
Women are the last priority in the house. They will have to give everything to men. One woman told me, “When we want something, people will obstruct and create problems for us”. Many people make money dead, useless and will spend on negative causes like death, medicine etc.
My teacher Deshika Kirtie never saved money. He used to spend money and when someone asked for money, he was generous. I asked him one day about insurance and he said “God is my insurance and my sadhana are my investments”.
People can not enjoy money. They will wait for a golden tomorrow which will never come. In the name of savings and investments they treat people shabbily and expect everyone to sacrifice for them.
I hope we woke up to this reality.
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