If you consider love as a waste of time,
I think there is something wrong in your understanding.
Love can never be a waste.
It can be a waste in case
so-called love has disappointed you because
the other person has rejected you.
But love has not failed. The other person has failed.
Identifying an intelligent person,
you have to be either of the two:
slightly foolish enough to know that
you are a foolish person and the other person is intelligent.
That is one.
And second thing you have to be super intelligent
to know who are intelligent people.
Nevertheless, why do you need to find
who intelligent people are? For what? What is the purpose?
Are intelligent people always heartful? Could be.
They could be using that intelligence in the wrong way also.
You see, the intelligence of Lord Rama
and the intelligence of Ravana,
perhaps both were very intelligent individuals.
So, the intentions of how we use our intelligence
determines the outcome of our life.
If you consider love as a waste of time,
I think there is something wrong in your understanding.
Love can never be a waste.
It can be a waste in case
so-called love has disappointed you because
the other person has rejected you.
But love has not failed.
The other person has failed.
Then, under such circumstances,
such failures will make you wiser.
So, if such episodes can make you wiser,
can you say it was a waste of your time?
Not at all.
If you have the capacity to make crores of rupees,
if you have the ability to make 10 crores, make 100 crores.
If you had the ability to make 100 crores, make 1000 crores.
There is nothing wrong in making money.
Materialistic world is not all that bad.
If good-hearted people stay away from making money,
then you are leaving this financial field
in the hands of bad elements.
What can become of the society
if all bad elements
continue making loads and loads of money? So,
good-hearted people should also think of
making lots and lots of money.
Two things to be remembered: Make it with honest means
and spend it wisely.
Material life and spiritual life,
we need to build a bridge, we need to integrate both.
Then there is beauty.
If you go too much into the spiritual world,
then our
material duties towards the family and community suffer.
If you go into the material world so much,
then you are spoiling your spiritual future,
the existence itself.
I am not talking of spoiling life.
I am talking of spoiling your spiritual existence.
It is a big difference between life and existence.
Please think over it.
Well, one thing to believe is there is always some purpose.
And that purpose is to do our best under all situations.
Doing our best means to transform
our abilities day after day. If I were a doctor,
or if I were a musician playing flute,
if I were a scientist, or a farmer,
I have to perform at my best.
And what is the best in all such cases?
There is fundamental humanness.
And we call that humanness the reflection
of your consciousness.
And to skyrocket or to soar higher into higher levels of
Consciousness is the very purpose of our life.
Without this very well-developed consciousness,
you cannot be creative, and without creativity,
you cannot be the best at what you are doing.
So, indirectly we can say the purpose of our life
is to do our best by helping our consciousness
become better and better every day.
So, find out the means to make your consciousness better.
Thank you.