Everywhere in the world, whether it is the United States or
whether it is in a third world country, wherever it is people are running after money.
Why?
Because money is life force.
Without money, life will not be sustained.
Money symbolizes life.
That's why innately everybody is thinking about money, including the king as well as
the beggar.
Manikavasacar said that: [Tamil]
"Who runs after gold?
The ascetics as well as the kings."
It's a very profound statement.
Both of them are after money.
The king is after money is understandable.
Why is the ascetic after money?
Because he has to do his own fire rituals and for which he needs resources.
And why he has to do fire rituals, because the fire rituals are the means
through which you get into touch with the divine.
You do the fire sacrifice for the divine for which you need resources.
So when you need resources, you need money to buy those resources.
So, it's a misunderstanding to say that money is evil.
Only lack of money is evil.
Money on the other hand, is the sustaining force.
It's sustain life.
It is with money that you buy your food.
It is with money that you buy your home.
It is with money that you buy your medical insurance.
So, money is needed for anything that you do on this earth plane and also in heaven
too.
So, what you have to know and understand is that money is a vital energy.
And it will never leave a human being.
Even at the time of death, what survives is the love for gold, the love for money.
It will survive even after death.
Then, you will come back again in order to make money.
So, you have to develop a proper relationship with money.
And people who are poor, particularly, need to develop this relationship.
It is because of the bad relationship that they have,
perhaps a judgment that they have toward money, has resulted in creating poverty in their
life.
Money is what sustains life.
It's a sustaining force.
You should embrace and not be judgmental about it.
Then, you will have money and you will also sustain life.
Once you have money, you can share it with others.
When you don't have it, you cannot sustain yourself nor others.