What is Money?

“Do we get birth along with money?”
“Can we at-least carry the money along with us when we finish the journey of life?”
No!
Then why is majority of us is just worried about making more and more money
throughout our lives?
Let us have a small conversation:
Set B to Set A: “How does money help us?”
Set A to Set B: “Well, to live we need money; like for food, clothing and shelter etc.”
Set B: “Agreed. But you have all these things since many years then why do you
continue to have ONLY ONE SINGLE GOAL of making more and more money?”
Set A: “Well I want success and happiness; so I need more money for that”
This is where the problem lies. We all think that we want huge sum of money because
we want to be happy, but actually money alone cannot help us to become happy. In
fact it is making us more and more upset every passing day because we want more
money than what we already have at any point of time.
Does it sound true? Ask this question to yourself.
Nature created all resources and gave it to the entire living society at no cost! Now
how would we go on deciding who will own what? So there was no option left for
humans but to start with a concept called ‘Money’ to enjoy these resources in
exchange of the same under the human made structure of ‘Economy’.

We have forgotten that money is a support to life as defined by human beings as per
structure of ‘Economy’ and it is NOT THE ONLY GOAL of life.
Life is to live and not just to spend.

No doubt money is required by each one of us to manage our material lives. However money alone can never be the end solution to anything because happiness is a state of mind where we feel satisfied about some thing. Just adding on money will always lead to addition of things without which we could have anyway led a satisfactory life but our psychology is not allowing us to accept that fact. We keep ourselves busy in endless materialistic ‘Comparison’ and ‘Competition’ because of our sick emotions of ‘Jealousy’ and ‘Ego’. We need to find a balance between Material and Spiritual goals.

The Solution is ready:
“Do not plan your expenditure first and then struggle to earn for it, but first earn and
then plan how you want to spend it”.
I am sure that you will feel more satisfied and happy this way.
Let us discuss the above philosophy with an example:
Set A:
I have a big flat but I want a bungalow. I have a car but I want my own airplane. I
have powers to rule but I want more…, more… and more.
Set B:
I have a beautiful house to stay in with a loving family and I am proud of it. Currently
I do not own a luxury car but it does not make me feel unhappy. In all I have the most
wonderful and healthy life to enjoy with complete satisfaction, peace of mind and
happiness and it will keep improving as a gradual process.
So now who is falling short of money? Obviously Set A. This simply means that
people in Set B are much happier than people belonging to Set A because they feel
satisfied and fulfilled even though they continue performing their material duties!
Thus it does not mean that Set B people necessarily need to renounce all their material
duties and straight away become Saint / Monk. It means that they continue fulfilling
their material needs but in a ‘Selfless state of MIND’ aimed at ‘Serving others’ by
keeping themselves ‘Detached’ from the slavery of extreme materialization and
keeping their soul ‘Devoted to God (Nature)’ i.e. Godliness.

Remember that “Greed is never Good”

Life beyond Money & Development. It’s Life of Happiness & Satisfaction
Chirag Saiya