Politics is now considered….good people say, “Oh, we will not enter politics.”
Why not?
If good people do not enter politics,
only the bad will continue running it.
Go ahead with making money.
Spend it wisely.
If you can make a million today
and you have the capacity of making a billion,
make it, but spend it wisely and earn it honestly.
That is all that spirituality is demanding, you see. My material life and my spiritual life must go hand-in-hand, integrated.
I can be very successful and I have been very successful. But, what if my spiritual wing of life
was short?
If one wing of material life is very long and my spiritual wing is so short, what will happen to such a life?
Can you imagine a bird, with one long wing and one short wing?
It will go round and round.
And that is what is happening with us. Going round and round is nothing but
life and death going in one circle, instead of going straight up,
what we call liberation, or going beyond liberation, you see.
And I can tell you from my personal experiences,
that the business world is not standing against spirituality or spirituality is not against the business world.
They can easily be integrated.
You will find across the globe
people who are practising meditations of one sort or the other,
and everybody’s experience is the same that, “Yes, we can meditate and at the same time,
we can also co-exist with material proliferation”, you see.
And in fact, good-hearted people should make a lot of money.
Imagine, if good-hearted people do not make money,
then you are leaving those avenues open to the bad people, terrorists, goonda guys. Is it not? Similarly politics also.
Politics is now considered….. good people say, “Oh, we will not enter politics.”
Why not?
If good people do not enter politics,
only the bad will continue running it.
Same thing with spirituality.
Spiritual people say, “Oh, I will not do business”, or “I will not marry”, or “I will do this”, or “I will not do that.”
What is wrong with politics? What is wrong with business?
If your heart is God-oriented, nothing prevents you. And you have so many examples.
All these sages and saints and kings like Raja Janaka,
they are glorious examples.
Vashishta was an ordinary family man. Similarly Atri muni, similarly Ashtavakra’s father.
And I think it is possible that I can meditate every morning, I can meditate every evening
and remain absolutely meditative 24x7,
without any interference into my day-to-day life.
In fact, our day-to-day, regular life, we call, “material or bhautik jeevan” can actually be embellished, can actually be
intensified with the practice of meditation.
And that is why, Lord Krishna speaks so boldly about it that, “Only through Yoga
all your activities can excel.”
If a child is meditating,
if a teenager is meditating,
if an adult is meditating,
if husband and wife, holding their hands together and meditate together,
imagine the society.
We can change it.
There is so much
bankruptcy at a morality level, at a character level in a lot of people.
I think this bankruptcy can be avoided
by following this message from Lord Krishna that, “It is through Yoga only that we can excel in all our activities.”
Even a failure will look like a success the moment you become spiritual.