Wealth and Faith

What is spirituality? Lead a righteous life. Then what is righteousness? Do the right things in all our relations, social as well as environmental. Then what is right in all our relations? At this point we have to think about our existence then only we can answer it properly.

Existence is the performance of two opposite functions, internal and external. But both are related each other. We can think a little bit more about it. If the internal functions are not performing well in individuals; not only in individuals but also in entities like society, organizations or nations; it can exists no more. OK,is it possible to exist individuals if the performance of internal functions are going well? Yes, but the question is that whether the performance of internal functions go on with out any interference? No, we have to perform some external functions to maintain this internals. Means without external there is no internal, they are correlatives. And if there are internal, there should be external too. In nut shell, whatever we perform externally is for the sake of the performance of internals. Therefore when we perform functions externally we have to ask or check to know whether it is for the optimum function of internals. If it is more than this scale or less than that, we are not doing the right things, we are not righteous. When we encroach environment we have to make sure that it should be for the existence not for more than that, means it should not be to quench our greed. Whatever wealth you amass it doesn’t matter, you will not be able to consume them beyond the amount of what you need to exist or beyond the capacity of your internals. If you consume everything that attracts you, lead by Eve-Psychology, then you will be blessed with some troubles having beautiful and sweet names (totally they are known as “Life Style” diseases). Why? Doing nothing, having much; not the right thing, not righteous or not at all spiritual.

Anyway the truth is that our internals have inevitably been influenced  externally .And we cannot exist without this process. Means our internal world depends always on an external world. So, we have to relay on the immediate and tangible external world to maintain our existence, but when we interact with this outer world , it also interact with us and attract us more and more. We gradually become the integral part of this world and this world become an inseparable part of us. This is not right otherwise not righteous. As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. We should not be controlled by material world, one more world is working in us. If we are controlled by this material world, then we will not have any control over outer world. Then what to do?

We have to think , or ask a question, whether it is this tangible world is the external force that help us to exist, or any other element exists that helps even this tangible world to exist? We can see this tangible world, itself, is functioning by the help of an intangible external. Some principles. Then which is better to rely on, immediate external or the absolute external-the intangible? Means, which should be considered as important or primary? Not the tangible external but intangible external .That doesn't mean without material means we can exist. If we have material existence we have to rely on material external to maintain it. But, again, which is primary and which is secondary? If the intangible external is primary then the tangible external become the secondary, means we depend on it only for the sake of material existence, we will not exploit the nature and society like anything and invite undesirable consequences. These consequences are not new for human race, it happened even in the time of Noah, the flood. Our priority should be for the intangible external,then we use the tangibles for this priority. If it is in the reverse order, our priority will be for the tangible external. The intangible become the secondary, so we try to use it for our tangible priorities. Any way these both cannot be our masters at the same time, says Bible. We love either one of them and consider the other as secondary and neglect in practical life.

Most of the people who believe in an intangible force for the sake of their material priorities. They belittle it considering it as a tool to exploit the world. Then the consequence is not far away. We have to remember the history, the french revolution. The God, church and everything became the tool to amass wealth by exploiting the society and nature, there in France. That made the revolution an inevitable consequence.

We have to understand that no material gains bring us happiness. Happiness is a state of mind, or in a better language, it is a psychological phenomenon, we can maintain it. Look at a child, why it is happy? Because of the possession of great wealth? No, we use the easy one word answer 'psychology',  not 'economics'.

So with wealth we will not have happiness, the principle of happiness is not wealth. And if you need wealth for the right purpose, it will come. Dream about such a project, a purpose, then the needed wealth will come along with you. Remember not for the wealth, but for the good cause, you give the priority.