Why most people don’t make money?
There are two answers to this question.
There are many, but two come to my mind and the two are for 2 different cultures.
If I say I have to answer the Eastern people, particularly the people from India which I
know very well, “it is because of your karma, you don’t have good money karma.”
If I say this to, say, the Western people, “I don’t know if there is karma or not,
I know why people are not making money.
It is because they don’t have educational qualification, they don’t have the knowhow,
they are born in a poor family, or some pragmatic reasons.
Which one is right?
Both are right.
I would say if I want to have a very balanced view on this question, who is right?
I would say the karma is more comprehensive, provides comprehensive answer.
For instance, somebody is born in Beverly Hills, somebody is born in Bel Air, and somebody
is born in a slum in the same region, California.
Why?
Congenitally there is inequality.
How would you explain this thing?
You can simply say “I was born to parents who didn’t have money,” but then the Indian
answer is “Nothing is an accident.
Everything has to be looked at from a larger, deeper perspective.”
So, karma is certainly reason why you don’t have money, money karma.
You may have good education karma, you may have a PhD, you may have an MD, but still
you won’t make money.
Because you have educational karma, but you don’t have money karma.
So, that is more profound to look into this Indian answer, but I wouldn’t put down the
American answer for this question, “Yes, you don’t have proper education, you don’t
have PhD in Computer Science or you didn’t go to Wharton School of Business, or Harvard
School of Business,” they are true too.
But even all those who go to Wharton School or Stanford or Harvard, not all of them are
equal.
So, that you have to answer too.
To go back to the Indian answer that karma is responsible for lack of money, and what
is karma?
Karma is your thinking pattern.
Not that karma is a goofy, superstitious concept; it is a very, very pragmatic, even rationalistic
concept.
You can even see by looking at a, I was just talking to a man whom I have never seen and
somebody gave me the horoscope of this man, and I knew right away this man is extremely
wealthy.
Then I would see somebody’s horoscope, “This man will never have money.”
How?
We can see the Vedic Astrology is profound.
That’s why the Government of India and Supreme Court of India and University Grants Commission,
all approved of Vedic Astrology as a valid science to be studied at schools and colleges.
My concern here is primarily how to help people to understand this issue.
It is a matter of karma, it is a matter of Astrology, it’s a matter of pragmatic issues
like lack of education and so forth.
I am not going to talk about them either.
I am going to talk about certain other categories: Lack of
motivation – you are not motivated to go and make money.
What can you do?
When you are not motivated, you are in denial or you are pessimistic, or you are unconscious
about the whole thing.
So, motivation is really a key.
They all know.
They have read about it, but still they won’t get out there, see it and go do something
about it.
Lack of motivation.
Why?
There are certain parts of the brain that are not working, that’s the pragmatic answer.
It’s lethargic.
There is a hyper active brain.
There is a brain that is a lazy brain.
Self actualization, particularly if your frontal lobe and the parietal lobe, they don’t function
well, then you are not trying to be activated.
You are not going to be active, you will just be like lotus eaters, just like a zombie kind
of consciousness and that’s one thing.
Motivation is a primary cause of why people are not making money, they are not motivated.
One thing that I just want to say is, somebody liked very much when I said that, why people
don’t make money?
Because they choose not to make money.
That seems to be very surprising because everybody you think is choosing to make money.
The truth is, people are choosing not to make money.
I gave an exercise to some people – in the morning you just ask yourself “Are you choosing
to make money?”
You may say “Yes.”
Most people will say “Yes, I am choosing today this morning”, 7 O’ Clock you get
up, “I am choosing to make money.”
But what happens at the end of the day when you go to bed, then you answer the question,
“Did you do?
What did you do?”
The answer would be “I chose not to make money.”
How?
Although I said in the morning, “I am choosing to make money,” but at the end of the day
when you answer a bunch of other questions that I had, like did you think about the money
all day long?
Or at least like if you have been up and working for say
8 to 10 hours, in 10 hours period, how many times you chose to make money and did something
about it?
Many people “You know that I am just so absorbed in whatever little job I am doing
and so I couldn’t do it.”
So, that is choosing not to make money.
You have to have, to think all the time about choosing to make money.
The moment you do that, it’s a matter of training the mind, it’s a matter of disciplining
yourself.
If you don’t discipline yourself, it’s not going to work.