not spoken Riches Truth #1: You will be rich only if it is your destiny to be.
This is the first absolute reality of wealth. No matter how smart we are, how educated, how gifted, how sincere, how hard we work, how much we study the lives of the rich, we simply will never be rich unless it is our destiny to be. That is the honest conclusion. If we are going to be rich, we will naturally be placed in the right circumstances with the right tools, the right resources, the right advantages, the right opportunities with the right people that will allow us to be rich, wealthy, or millionaires.
To reiterate, being rich is a matter of personal destiny. As Saint Jagat Singh says: What fate has planned for you will happen without any planning on your part. Your destiny will make you act and strive according to its plan. Old age, health, poverty, wealth, sickness, riches, learning, honor, dishonor, and the time of death are all preordained while a man is in his mother’s womb, so a wise man never worries, or frets, or regrets. anything.
There are many rich and wealthy individuals with millionaire status who teach, preach and profess that if we do what they do, we will be rich too. This does not reflect the law of destiny. Such souls who teach this philosophy, though perhaps with good intentions, lack the facts of life. If people follow his teachings and get rich, it is their destiny to do so, but not otherwise. As Guru Amardas, a 15th and 16th century mystic, states: God himself forces his creatures to follow destined paths of karmas (fruits of previous actions) over which they have no control and cannot be erased. Everything that is meant to happen must happen. On the contrary, what is not meant to happen will never happen.
not spoken Wealth Truth #2: The richest man in the world is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.
True contentment is reflected in a state of peace, not riches. How many rich people are really at peace with themselves? All one has to do is look at a sample of individuals whose lives are steeped in wealth, power, money and riches but also in whom there is a lack of peace and contentment. This is not to say that having enough wealth to lead a comfortable life is negative. It is not. What he means is that the highest ideals of peace and contentment cannot be bought for any amount of money and that monetary riches do not create peace. True peace comes from within, and being rich is not the way to get there. Thanking God for what we have, no matter how much, is the path to peace. Wise men don’t judge their lives by their bank accounts. Rather, wise men judge their worth based on more substantive principles and concerns, peace and contentment with one another. Therefore, the richest man in the world is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.
not spoken Rich Truth #3: God looks at clean hands, you do not fill them.
This quote was expressed by Publilius Syrus, a Latin philosopher of the 1st century BC in his “Moral Sayings”. Throughout history (past and present) there have been people whose wealth was impressive: kings, queens, pharaohs, businessmen, investors, politicians, industry tycoons, media moguls, etc., but does their wealth reflect a state of cleanliness and holiness? How many heinous acts have been created by people in pursuit of riches and the creation of material and monetary wealth? How many wars throughout the history of the earth have been fought over wealth? How many people, countries, and entire cultures have been decimated by other people, countries, and cultures that killed them for their riches? How many lies, deceptions and crimes of all kinds have been perpetrated in the name of being rich? How can anyone have clean hands when those hands are covered in the blood of their sacrificial victims?
Also, when people become rich, what real, positive, and universally lasting impact do they have on the lives of others? Do their legacies reach beyond the grave to uplift and give peace and satisfaction to the multitudes of souls that follow them in subsequent ages and ages? Who are the people who are universally remembered throughout history? Were they the ones whose pockets and purses were overflowing with money and millions? Christ, Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Saints Ravidas and Kabir, Guru Nanak and a noble litany of spiritual icons throughout world history were not rich, but they had a timeless, priceless, positive and precious impact that changed life not only in people. of their time and place but of those souls that came later and will continue to be born. Truly, it is not full hands that deserve God’s attention, but full hearts. This is something every conscientious person should consider when planning for life beyond the grave and perhaps leave a legacy that will endure with substantial merit beyond monetary wealth and worldly riches.
Arguably the greatest driving force for accumulating riches is greed, but contrary to a very popular movie opinion, greed is not good. Destroys the lives of the greed dealer and negatively compromises the lives of the greed dealer impacts. Greed is a vicious monster whose thirst cannot be quenched. When the Buddha comments that if a man is given a mountain of gold he will want two, he was right. Where is the end of man’s greed? How much money does a man need to lead a peaceful and satisfied life? How much food, let alone good, nutritious, healthy food, can a man eat in a day? How many cars can he drive? How many houses can he live in? How many shirts can he wear? Where is the need for rich beyond need? Life is full of lives of people who have been destroyed because they had too much wealth. Life is also full of people whose lives have been dramatically and negatively affected by those whose greed denied them sufficient food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. Excess creates access, and access to many of the world’s attractions is not necessarily a good thing. For the spiritually focused soul, need must take precedence over greed, and lustful greed for wealth and goods at the expense of others must be controlled.
It must also be remembered that the law of cause and effect is working relentlessly in this creation, and those whose greed is out of control will eventually be engulfed, consumed, and incinerated by its very flames. Indeed, the sower of greed is finally swallowed up by it. It is impossible to escape from it.
not spoken Riches Truth #4: We cannot take our riches with us when we leave.
When this body dies, our spirit will continue its journey, but the worldly riches that we work so hard to accumulate, for which we often sacrifice our ethical, moral and spiritual values to acquire them, will not go with us when we pass to the Great Beyond. As Guru Nanak says: The ranks of this world will not be recognized in the next. Certainly, the same can be said of wealth and riches. Surely this does not mean that riches are a bad thing. They are only bad if they are used for bad things, things that desecrate the soul of man, his nobility, self-respect, dignity, honor, honesty, courage. They are also bad if they serve to cling to this world, which the mystics tell us is of the lowest order in the hierarchy of spiritual regions.
Therefore, in consideration of not being able to take our riches with us when we leave this world, what a poor investment it is to spend one’s life solely in pursuit of that which does not serve our highest and best good or our future beyond missing. of the physical form? It is, in fact, a blind and foolish investment that staggers the imagination: sacrificing the future of our soul for temporary worldly wealth.
not spoken Truth of Riches #5: Riches cannot buy us one more breath when it comes time to expand our last breath.
Think of the richest person on the planet. A Forbes list of the world’s richest people is an excellent resource for researching these people. Think about this though: for all their wealth, wealth, millions and billions, when the time comes for them to draw their last breath on their priceless human body, for all their wealth and power, they won’t be able to buy one. …more…simple…just…little…breath. Then the reality of your wealth will be magnified like never before, and the illusion of wealth, wealth, millions and billions will shatter like a bubble of water in the ocean. What a waste to learn the true value of money this way, at the end, when it’s too late to change. So what does this say about the price of a single breath, something we take for granted every day? More importantly, what does it say about worldly riches and the time, effort, and work it takes to generate them? When a million dollars, even a billion dollars, cannot buy a single breath, what does this say not only about the price of a breath but also about the empty value of monetary riches?
Summary
Money and riches are not a bad thing. Like nuclear energy, they have positive and negative ramifications. Still, even when used for good, they have spiritual limitations and confinements to East world. First of all, fate will determine whether a person has money and riches. Second, wealth cannot buy satisfaction or personal peace. Third, the creation of great wealth often involves actions that dirty the hands, making them impure. Fourth, it is impossible to take our worldly treasures with us when we leave, when we leave this world. Fifth, all the money in the world can’t buy a single breath when it’s time to die. So how much importance should we give to creating wealth in this life, to being a millionaire or even a billionaire? Considering the Great Plan of the future of our life, how wise is such an investment and what will be its final cost? We have so much time on this earth, so many breaths in this human body. How will we spend the quick time we have left short-sightedly and foolishly in satiating our material greed, worldly indulgence and sensual gratification, or clearly and wisely in the pursuit of higher ideals and behaviors that will ensure our forward and upward progress in life? the world? Grand Staircase of Life when our last breath is released and the soul continues its journey?
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©Richard Andrew King 2011