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WHY SPIRITUAL SEEKERS DO NOT MAKE ENOUGH MONEY by Chennai based K.B.Gopalakrishnan 27th November, 2007 12:00pm
The basic rules being- spiritual seeker will have just enough money. Their survival will be taken care. They will not have luxury etc, unless they have some worldly work to do. Of course there are false guru who do all kind of promises to their followers to become rich and wealthy.
K.B.Gopalakrishnan says that when a man is doing sadhana god will give enough money and material things which will not distract him from sadhana. The more the seeker of truth runs behind money he will lose more money. Swami Ramdas lost lot of money when he did business. Real gurus never had any money. For example the great purshotananda of vasiata guha never had money. Secondly someone provided him with objects and places. take the life of Ramakrishna Parahamsa, he had a cousin of Rani Rasamani Devi to took care of his material needs. In fact this man was beck and call of Ramakrishna. Take my teacher, kirtie he has someone who will provide him money and material things for his sadhana with respect. Objects will manifest on their own. When a true spiritual seeker has a need for lap top it will manifest on its own. I know a person who wanted record his spiritual words, his student got a lap top as a gift from her brother.
When ever spiritual seeker gives some thing to worldly people they will get a lift. In life of Raghavendra swami a man comes and asks for money so that he can get married. The great swami will give him sand and says that this will help him in marriage. True to the words the sand helps the man to get married. If one reads the miracles of Raghavendra swami it will be seen. In reality the essence of money is security. The seeker of truth realizes that god names and prayers are the real security in life. Many people are aware of this great truth. But they do not have god’s grace to hold on to it. God gives the spiritual seeker the money so that he will have free time to pray, meditate and evolve as a soul. Many worldly people do not realize that time is bigger gift than money. When god loves someone he will give them guru, mantra and a place to meditate plus experiences which gives the faith in the chosen path. The lower souls will not understand the value of guru sadhana etc.
Most people save for old age for their children without realizing if they have donated, lived life in austere fashion they need not be paying for doctors, hospitals. Simplicity in life can solve many problems in sadhana. Many soul think that artha and Kama is the purpose of life. They do not even realize that moksha and dharma can be other facet. When society worships business men than the mass people want artha and Kama. Sometimes and very rarely mass wants dharma. When the spiritual heroes are worshipped and revered, then mass take to sadhana. When god loves someone he will make material life more and more insecure. The main reason is that they will need to put faith in god for their needs. That is why many seeker of truth would become very poor before they do sadhana.
I will quote
the great milarepa’s words which sums the essence of many
experiences of spiritual teachers separation; births, in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and building, and meeting; and faithful to the commands of an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth (which has no birth or death)." "If you do not acquire contentment in yourselves, Heaped-up accumulations will only enrich others. If you do not obtain the light of Inner Peace, Mere external ease and pleasure will become a source of pain. If you do not suppress the Demon of Ambition, Desire for fame will lead to ruin and to lawsuits" Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule"
Upon Mount Bonbo, Milarepa instructed many Repas who were preparing to depart for meditation in distant hermitages. Those junior Repas who wanted to stay with the Jetsun then said to him, "We are now in an age of defilement. For the sake of inferior and slow-witted persons like us, please preach something appropriate to our needs."
In response, Milarepa sang: Hearken further, my Son-disciples!
At this time of
defilement
May I dedicate the merit of the article to my lineage of students who will like the dharma. May they bring light and love were ever they go.
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