This is going to be a very important video, not only for you, but also for me because
it is going to summarize my findings or understanding about the most important concept in life which
is Karma.
I’m going to talk about Karma and money.
The topic was triggered through a conversation that I had with a student of mine who came
to see me yesterday in London.
The person asked a very important question during the dinner.
She asked, “ there is a point of view that Karma should not be interfered with.
For instance, you suffer because of Karma or you prosper because of Karma too.
If you prosper through Karma, that is good.
And then you can keep it and then don’t do anything bad to sabotage that, but what
about a bad Karma?
Should you try to change it, or just — you just live through that?“
It is a very important question – the question is – should you accept the Karma, a bad
Karma, which is lack of money, lack of relationship or some problems in life, - diseases and so
forth are some of the examples of bad Karma.
Should we do something about it?
Or just suffer?
And this question was raised by someone, a saint, a month ago.
And the saint told me that he has chosen to suffer the Karma.
Although this saint happens to be one who is also married and has 3 children — all
of them are suffering.
And he told me that he has chosen to suffer because he was advised by a top guru who said,
‘You have an option.
And the option is: You either suffer and finish all your bad Karma from past lives and end
this life.
Or we can give you remedies.”
“But what will happen is — The Karma will be altered and then you will have a break.
And you will have money; you will have relationship or whatever.
Not totally a great life, but somewhat a better life than what you are now living.”
And this is a question that everybody will have to ask — whether to suffer or to change
the suffering?
My answer to the question, to the person who put this question was — I think the best
way is the middle path.
You cannot just let the Karma completely destroy you — the bad Karma to destroy you.
If it is a disease, to allow yourself [to fall] a victim to the disease and death.
But you can do something to treat the disease and then live.
But then you should not totally interfere with your Karma.
So, accept the fact that the suffering is due to bad things that you have done in your
past life but then, do remedies to change it somewhat.
So this made me to think more deeply into the question of Karma and Money because this
is a central problem for most people.
Money comes to you as a result of good Karma.
So you have a great life with no financial problem.
And having said that you have to careful about understanding the concept of money as a reward
for your good Karma.
But money also can lead you to commit to doing a lot of bad things, [thus] leading to accumulation
of bad Karma that will result in a very bad life.
So what have you to do — what you have to do is be very careful about dealing with money.
Money is dangerous because it can create [in] you greed.
You know, if you look at people who are wealthy, 99% of the wealthy people, super wealthy people,
are greedy.
And then, they don’t care about how they make money.
It is not only true of people who are extremely wealthy or super wealthy, but also everyone.
Everyone is willing to compromise the way they make money.
They want to close their eyes about how the money is being made.
As a result what happens is they are accumulating bad Karma.
And the most important question is — since everybody is interested in money and even
including the departed spirits also like money, because the money lust or desire never leaves
a person.
So the important question is, ‘Why do we need money?
Why everybody is after money?’