not spoken Riches Truth #1: You will be rich only if it is in 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 in 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 allow us to be wealthy, 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, wealth, learning, honor, dishonor, and the time of death are all predestined while a man is in his mother’s womb, so a wise man never worries, nor frets, nor 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 too will be rich. This does not reflect the law of fate. 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 mystic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, declares: 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. Conversely, 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 drenched 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 higher 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 do not judge their lives by their bank accounts. Rather, wise men judge their worth based on more substantive principles and concerns, peace and contentment with each other. 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 1st century BC Latin philosopher in his “Moral Sayings”. Throughout history (past and present) there have been people whose wealth was impressive: kings, queens, pharaohs, businessmen, investors, politicians, industry moguls, media moguls, etc., but do their wealth reflect a state of cleanliness and holiness? How many heinous acts have been created by people in the pursuit of wealth and the creation of material and monetary wealth? How many wars throughout earth’s history have been fought over wealth? How many people, countries and entire cultures have been decimated by other people, countries and cultures who 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 someone have clean hands when those hands are covered in the blood of their sacrificed victims?

Furthermore, when people become wealthy, 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 succeeding 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 lofty litany of spiritual icons throughout world history were not rich, but they had a timeless, invaluable, 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 leaving a legacy that will endure with substantial merit beyond monetary wealth and worldly riches.

Arguably the greatest driving force for amassing wealth is greed, but contrary to popular movie opinion, greed is not good. Destroys the life of the greed monger and negatively compromises the lives of the greed monger’s impacts. Greed is a vicious monster whose thirst cannot be quenched. When 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 it? How many houses can he live in? How many t-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 drastically and negatively affected by those whose greed denied them enough 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 come before greed and the lustful greed for riches and riches at the expense of others must be kept in check.

It must also be remembered that the law of cause and effect is relentlessly at work 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 engulfed 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 is not to say 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 bind us to this world, which mystics tell us is of the lowest order in the hierarchy of spiritual realms.

Therefore, in consideration of not being able to take our wealth with us when we leave this world, what a bad investment it is to spend one’s life solely in pursuit of what does not serve our greatest and best good or our future beyond disappearance. . of the physical form? It is, in fact, a blind and foolish investment that staggers the imagination: sacrificing our soul’s future for temporary worldly wealth.

not spoken Riches Truth #5: Riches can’t buy us one more breath when it’s 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. However, think about this: despite all your wealth, riches, millions and billions, when the time comes for you to draw your last breath on your priceless human body, despite all your wealth and power, you will not be able to buy one. …more…simpler…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 water bubble 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 power, 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 wealth. Second, wealth cannot buy personal satisfaction or peace. Third, often the creation of great wealth 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 depart from this world. Fifth, all the money in the world cannot buy a single breath when it is 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 Grand Plan for the future of our lives, how wise is such an investment and what will its ultimate cost be? We have so much time on this earth, so many breaths in this human body. How will we spend the quick remaining time shortsightedly and foolishly in satiating our material greed, worldly indulgence, and sensual gratification, or clearly and wisely in pursuit of higher ideals and behaviors that will ensure our progress forward and upward 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