Earning more...
To spend more…and to become spent forces…is this success? And if it is success then why money alone cannot…nor can academic excellence…nor intelligence and intellect enable one to access The Success…of satisfaction and contentment within? As we earn do we learn too the workings of life?
Nothing is wrong with money as nothing is wrong with anything life provides. It is how we use it…how we perceive it…that makes its impact—soothing or peeving. In this frenzy for material …and outward…and worldly… success people are not only separated from self, but reluctant to find their selves. ‘Money’ not only would appease but allow the presence of peace in life, even in ‘its’ presence, when ‘it’ flows from full awareness of the spiritual being one is.
Well we could call it the bane of progress, which has been based only on the intellect, and what 'material' that intellect can produce. It is the matter that has become important...making life driven by the material. No wonder the growth is found where it is...yet it fails to satisfy at the deepest level. Success comes at the cost of peace...and the money earned to spend more, fails to stop people from becoming spent forces, in the bigger context of life...and all because we have separated education from true education...which would truly make all aware of their own truth...and they would think their thoughts...and not of others. They would be leading their lives...and not someone else's. They would be following their true calling.
Yet I am confident that we shall be up again...with the guide being our inner selves...with spirituality honored and embraced...instead of being removed from the title of a lecture, lest it puts off youngsters. More and more youngsters are responding to the call from within...this has been my experience with my interactions...in person and through my writings. Lets us not forget that the next generation, even scientifically are a more evolved generation…and thus evolution of the soul would ensure their responding to the clarion call from within…more than ever now.
None can ignore the call of one's truth for long...soul finds it way out by drawing all within...
Spirituality is our essence and by embracing it we are just acknowledging our truth…and in simple terms when we recognize, acknowledge, accept, and be, Who We Are, we are being the spirits that we are…
When the material growth is an outpouring of the preceding and collateral spiritual growth, the earning and more earning of money is a natural in flow…and not a result of craving for ‘more and more’. The money earned thus, allows us to spend more…not only for self but for all…yet doesn’t allow us to become spent forces…as then we actually live our life…not spend it…
Sushmita Mukherjee,
March 31, 2012
PS: This article has been inspired by Andrew Cohen’s Blog (posted on March 30, 2012 “Are You Thinking Your Own Thoughts?” on Speaking Tree
