Why Do We Suffer?
Money doesn’t bring suffering, stupidity does. Money will bring comfort but it cannot bring joy. Why should comfort and convenience become suffering? We wanted it, so why should what we want become the source of suffering? Affluence is beautiful, if it comes in proportion. If you have enough money in your pocket, you don’t have to worry about working tomorrow. You can close your eyes and meditate if you wish, isn’t it? The man who is working from meal to meal, even if he wants to close his eyes, he cannot. So money is not misery. Stupidity is always misery, whether you are spiritually or economically stupid. So many people go to places of worship everyday. They are talking more about somebody that they saw in the temple than God. Or, in the temple, your footwear goes with somebody else and you curse the whole of creation and the Creator. People coming out of a restaurant have more joy and fulfilment on their faces than people coming out of a temple. What a shame that a dosa can do something more than the divine! So, the question is not about the divine, dosa or affluence. If we handle things improperly, misery will come, that’s all. When money doesn’t stay in pockets, it goes to your head, then misery is sure to come. Money entering your head becomes misery because that’s not its place. We build grand temples, but we don’t have good toilets. This is our problem. We thought everything is up there; and we can neglect the world, so we are paying another kind of price. Somewhere, you need a balance.
Source: Economic Times, 17/01/2019
Money doesn’t bring suffering, stupidity does. Money will bring comfort but it cannot bring joy. Why should comfort and convenience become suffering? We wanted it, so why should what we want become the source of suffering? Affluence is beautiful, if it comes in proportion. If you have enough money in your pocket, you don’t have to worry about working tomorrow. You can close your eyes and meditate if you wish, isn’t it? The man who is working from meal to meal, even if he wants to close his eyes, he cannot. So money is not misery. Stupidity is always misery, whether you are spiritually or economically stupid. So many people go to places of worship everyday. They are talking more about somebody that they saw in the temple than God. Or, in the temple, your footwear goes with somebody else and you curse the whole of creation and the Creator. People coming out of a restaurant have more joy and fulfilment on their faces than people coming out of a temple. What a shame that a dosa can do something more than the divine! So, the question is not about the divine, dosa or affluence. If we handle things improperly, misery will come, that’s all. When money doesn’t stay in pockets, it goes to your head, then misery is sure to come. Money entering your head becomes misery because that’s not its place. We build grand temples, but we don’t have good toilets. This is our problem. We thought everything is up there; and we can neglect the world, so we are paying another kind of price. Somewhere, you need a balance.
Source: Economic Times, 17/01/2019
