MOVE BEYOND FIVE SENSES
Till the time you have a physical thought, you will not be able to access the higher centers and as a result you will not understand anything beyond the five senses. It is okay to first indulge in the five senses and to experience them for a while, but disastrous to make them a basis for your journey into yog. They are only a transition and not the basis.
I reduced my own business involvement to minimum long time back despite it giving me phenomenal returns. It might seem illogical to most but when I sat down to do the math of the number of days I spent roaming around, the tension that I took, the debates and arguments it got me into and the meals that I missed to work out business plans, then the money earned seemed of little value in comparison to the damage I caused to myself. I was convinced that it is just not worth it and reduced my working days from 30 to 3 in a month as that much would be enough to meet my requirements. Same goes for my relationships also.
Think about it, even if you earn that extra money you will only spend it on wasteful indulgence as you do not really need it, you will not only damage your health but also spoil your karma and janam by hoarding on to resources and eating into someone else’s share. It is a misconception that good karmas bring you large fortunes. An honest person who follows the yamas, even if he is making a bare minimum, would be satisfied with it. To make super profits and hoard, you have to make strategies and lie to people, and the one who does that can never spend the money so earned as he knows of the ‘effort’ that has gone into making it. Such a person would also not do charity and I can assure you, he would not be enjoying his wealth, he would be dissatisfied and troubled, trying to guard it all the time. That money is spent by his children who are only concerned about their life and they would do it in front of his eyes and he will not be able to say anything to them because after all he earned that money for them only! I am yet to meet someone who is happy with the way his/her children are. So when you do not think your children are good, then for whom are you earning and collecting? You very well know what will become of your hard-earned money and yet you are sacrificing your janam and karma in earning a little more and not sharing it with creation. This is maya, which will not let you enter yog, or go beyond. It is okay to earn, it is okay to enjoy, it is okay to spend but it is not okay to not share.
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