TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK 'MARANAM-PARAMANANDATHINTE THAKKOL' WRITTEN BY ANAND UNNITHAN. TRANSLATED BY:KRISHNA(KRISHNANKUTTY NAIR).copyright@anand unnithan(author of the book)
6
DO NOT OVERLOOK LIFE FOR MONEY
How to explain it all? Except as the gambling of a visitor!
We are all visitors, who have to continue the journey through the path of changes after knowing and experiencing everything.
It is easy to speak incessantly about knowing the self and asceticism. But can a person live without money?
Is it possible either to a lustful materialist or to a monk?
Only that person, who is determined to die of starvation, can have the courage to declare that money is not needed.
Because the present society is defined on the basis of money too.
There will not be any need for money if everything is available free of cost.
But if that happens, man will doubtlessly be a totally idle living being.
At present they do a variety of jobs. And it is all for money. Rarely there may be someone who does works in a selfless manner and not for money.
If we were able to buy a luxurious car by selling one kilogram Tuber then no one will respect a person even if he has the most luxurious car.
But things are not like that. The person who is able to buy only one kilogram of Tuber is considered poor while the person who can buy a luxurious car is considered as a respectable rich man.
While the society looks contemptuously at the poor, they look at the rich people with reverence, even if he is cruel and deceitful.
Even a sneeze of that industrialist who possesses millions of money becomes front page news in newspapers.
Although they preach ideals, the common people pretend to be subservient, fearful, devoted and respectful when they happen to see a rich man. Nobody complains even if he does something wrong. ‘But he is rich, No?’
Why to say more. There are gods and goddesses of wealth from the ancient times,
Actually, what is the problem of money?
In fact money has no problem at all. It is man who has problem.
Money has no mind. And therefore it is never mental.
Yes. The cause of all problems is the mental sickness of man.
To a conscientious person, a beggar who possess only ten rupees received as alms and a rich industrialist whose wealth is one lakh crores of rupees are equal.
The only difference is that when one man can spend only ten rupees, the other man can spend one lakh crores.
What is the need to respect them for this reason?
When someone looks at another person, with avaricious devotion for the reason that the second person is in possession of everything which the first person could not achieve, it is sheer lunacy.
And those who say that it not devotion of that kind, please think once. Is your devotion to a rich man is similar to your devotion to Buddha or Gandhiji or mother Theresa?
Never. Not at all.
And here is the difference between devotion and lunacy.
Wake up. See money as money only.
Recognize that money is only a medium for transactions as well as to keep alive the interest to work.
Above that, there is no use in worshipping money except to increase lunacy.
As stated earlier, there will not be any need for money to monks too if everything is available free of cost.
Those who live on alms other than money saying that they will not touch money may remember one thing. The things they accept are bought by money received by somebody as remuneration for the work done by them.
To hate money blindly is also lunacy. No doubt.
Yes. Look at money simply as money only.
Beware you, monks. Society is aware of the ways in which you have to behave. And you must behave like that!!!
It is like this. Do not keep any money with you. Do not keep connections with those who use money. Depend only on alms for subsistence from now on. Do not accept gifts, but give gifts. Even if you see a gold coin lying on the ground, do not take it, but walk away from that.
What a stupidity!!!
A monk or a conscientious person should also earn wealth. But it should not be to fulfill his yearning for wealth. It must be for his survival and for using for his works. He should not involve himself in nonsensical works. He has the right to receive and also to give contributions.
Since every work done by anyone while he exists in the realm of real knowledge will become nishkama karma (Action done without bothering about the result, with one hundred percent confidence that the result will follow, if the action is done properly.), it will not result in a bondage between the present and future i.e. the present action is not going to have its reaction in the future, as is the case with ordinary human beings, who does the action thinking about the result. So it is not wrong for a real yogi to give and take contributions.
If a gold coin is lying on the floor, take it and ask the people around as to whether it belongs to them. And if there is no claimant, the person who got it may spend it as he likes. Because the loss is the destiny of one person while the gain is the destiny of another person.
But a monk should not rob anything from anybody.
But it doesn’t mean that he is not supposed to make a bargain or do not set up shop.
To a monk, these are not subjects which will affect his ultimate aim.
But money fascinates the common man since he is not free from Maya (illusion). The craze for it leads him towards insensible actions. He sells drugs and spirit and poisonous liquor which spoil people while he makes money. By killing wild elephants and smuggling their tusk, he becomes rich. Spoiling the equilibrium of the ecological system, spoiling all beings, he makes fortune. Even countries make money by making bombs which destroy lives en masse.
But being caught up in the rat race to make more money, he misses one thing.
He forgets to live. He fails to enjoy life.
According to Mathew’s Gospel (16; 26) What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?
Yes. We are just visitors.
When I go from here, I cannot take even a single rupee with me. Then why should I go on earning, much more than what is needed to live here?
Why I need lakhs and Lakhs and crores and crores? Why?
If I give the excess to someone who needs it, won’t the problem be solved?
How many people are being driven from pillar to post for a single meal? Why can’t they be fed at least a morsel of food once with love?
Will it not satisfy their desire to be loved?
Why we need surplus money?
Yes. Haves have to give to the have-nots.
Because, when I am hungry, God, who is my father, feed me. When I am thirsty, he give me water. Give me Love. I accept them as my privilege.
But how can I accept the love which is denied to my brother?
On the other hand, how can I deny God, who is my father?
For God, who is my father, I love my brother sincerely. I also understand that whatever is given to me are for him too.
What I will do having a heaven all for myself, if I will be alone there?
It is better to die in mother’s womb itself than living seventy years just to earn money and then living one year for spending it.
Yes. Look at money simply as money only.
And those who cannot do so, lives like slaves on the earth and leads a hellish life.
Actually there is no difference between one woman who wears a golden chain and another woman who wears a chain made of pieces of bone.
But there is no use in blaming any of them because both of them do not know themselves.
A woman who cannot wear golden ornament may at time feel revengeful both to themselves and to others. She will be envious. She will decide to possess a golden chain, come what may.
Those who have a golden chain will find delight in exhibiting it to others. They may even feel that it is the chain which makes them beautiful and respectable.
‘If I do not have that specially designed golden chain, I will not attend the marriage where a lot of women come.’ She may even declare.
No doubt. It is lunacy.
Awake. See the inner beauty first. Then decorate the outer.
To wear an ornament is not a wrong thing. But to wear or not to wear is one and the same.
But forming of wrong thoughts in the mind without control is an imperfection.
Think consciously. Why do you show all these decorations to that lady, who is so poor that she cannot even wear a black thread on her neck as an ornament?
What is the use of all this?
You have forgotten. That life is beautiful.
Money is not an illusion. It is a created reality.
It is your thoughts, which are illusory.
Wake up. Wake up to the reality and enjoy life.
Remember. I am a visitor, who has come to return. To return with empty hands.
Just a son of the present.
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6
DO NOT OVERLOOK LIFE FOR MONEY
How to explain it all? Except as the gambling of a visitor!
We are all visitors, who have to continue the journey through the path of changes after knowing and experiencing everything.
It is easy to speak incessantly about knowing the self and asceticism. But can a person live without money?
Is it possible either to a lustful materialist or to a monk?
Only that person, who is determined to die of starvation, can have the courage to declare that money is not needed.
Because the present society is defined on the basis of money too.
There will not be any need for money if everything is available free of cost.
But if that happens, man will doubtlessly be a totally idle living being.
At present they do a variety of jobs. And it is all for money. Rarely there may be someone who does works in a selfless manner and not for money.
If we were able to buy a luxurious car by selling one kilogram Tuber then no one will respect a person even if he has the most luxurious car.
But things are not like that. The person who is able to buy only one kilogram of Tuber is considered poor while the person who can buy a luxurious car is considered as a respectable rich man.
While the society looks contemptuously at the poor, they look at the rich people with reverence, even if he is cruel and deceitful.
Even a sneeze of that industrialist who possesses millions of money becomes front page news in newspapers.
Although they preach ideals, the common people pretend to be subservient, fearful, devoted and respectful when they happen to see a rich man. Nobody complains even if he does something wrong. ‘But he is rich, No?’
Why to say more. There are gods and goddesses of wealth from the ancient times,
Actually, what is the problem of money?
In fact money has no problem at all. It is man who has problem.
Money has no mind. And therefore it is never mental.
Yes. The cause of all problems is the mental sickness of man.
To a conscientious person, a beggar who possess only ten rupees received as alms and a rich industrialist whose wealth is one lakh crores of rupees are equal.
The only difference is that when one man can spend only ten rupees, the other man can spend one lakh crores.
What is the need to respect them for this reason?
When someone looks at another person, with avaricious devotion for the reason that the second person is in possession of everything which the first person could not achieve, it is sheer lunacy.
And those who say that it not devotion of that kind, please think once. Is your devotion to a rich man is similar to your devotion to Buddha or Gandhiji or mother Theresa?
Never. Not at all.
And here is the difference between devotion and lunacy.
Wake up. See money as money only.
Recognize that money is only a medium for transactions as well as to keep alive the interest to work.
Above that, there is no use in worshipping money except to increase lunacy.
As stated earlier, there will not be any need for money to monks too if everything is available free of cost.
Those who live on alms other than money saying that they will not touch money may remember one thing. The things they accept are bought by money received by somebody as remuneration for the work done by them.
To hate money blindly is also lunacy. No doubt.
Yes. Look at money simply as money only.
Beware you, monks. Society is aware of the ways in which you have to behave. And you must behave like that!!!
It is like this. Do not keep any money with you. Do not keep connections with those who use money. Depend only on alms for subsistence from now on. Do not accept gifts, but give gifts. Even if you see a gold coin lying on the ground, do not take it, but walk away from that.
What a stupidity!!!
A monk or a conscientious person should also earn wealth. But it should not be to fulfill his yearning for wealth. It must be for his survival and for using for his works. He should not involve himself in nonsensical works. He has the right to receive and also to give contributions.
Since every work done by anyone while he exists in the realm of real knowledge will become nishkama karma (Action done without bothering about the result, with one hundred percent confidence that the result will follow, if the action is done properly.), it will not result in a bondage between the present and future i.e. the present action is not going to have its reaction in the future, as is the case with ordinary human beings, who does the action thinking about the result. So it is not wrong for a real yogi to give and take contributions.
If a gold coin is lying on the floor, take it and ask the people around as to whether it belongs to them. And if there is no claimant, the person who got it may spend it as he likes. Because the loss is the destiny of one person while the gain is the destiny of another person.
But a monk should not rob anything from anybody.
But it doesn’t mean that he is not supposed to make a bargain or do not set up shop.
To a monk, these are not subjects which will affect his ultimate aim.
But money fascinates the common man since he is not free from Maya (illusion). The craze for it leads him towards insensible actions. He sells drugs and spirit and poisonous liquor which spoil people while he makes money. By killing wild elephants and smuggling their tusk, he becomes rich. Spoiling the equilibrium of the ecological system, spoiling all beings, he makes fortune. Even countries make money by making bombs which destroy lives en masse.
But being caught up in the rat race to make more money, he misses one thing.
He forgets to live. He fails to enjoy life.
According to Mathew’s Gospel (16; 26) What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?
Yes. We are just visitors.
When I go from here, I cannot take even a single rupee with me. Then why should I go on earning, much more than what is needed to live here?
Why I need lakhs and Lakhs and crores and crores? Why?
If I give the excess to someone who needs it, won’t the problem be solved?
How many people are being driven from pillar to post for a single meal? Why can’t they be fed at least a morsel of food once with love?
Will it not satisfy their desire to be loved?
Why we need surplus money?
Yes. Haves have to give to the have-nots.
Because, when I am hungry, God, who is my father, feed me. When I am thirsty, he give me water. Give me Love. I accept them as my privilege.
But how can I accept the love which is denied to my brother?
On the other hand, how can I deny God, who is my father?
For God, who is my father, I love my brother sincerely. I also understand that whatever is given to me are for him too.
What I will do having a heaven all for myself, if I will be alone there?
It is better to die in mother’s womb itself than living seventy years just to earn money and then living one year for spending it.
Yes. Look at money simply as money only.
And those who cannot do so, lives like slaves on the earth and leads a hellish life.
Actually there is no difference between one woman who wears a golden chain and another woman who wears a chain made of pieces of bone.
But there is no use in blaming any of them because both of them do not know themselves.
A woman who cannot wear golden ornament may at time feel revengeful both to themselves and to others. She will be envious. She will decide to possess a golden chain, come what may.
Those who have a golden chain will find delight in exhibiting it to others. They may even feel that it is the chain which makes them beautiful and respectable.
‘If I do not have that specially designed golden chain, I will not attend the marriage where a lot of women come.’ She may even declare.
No doubt. It is lunacy.
Awake. See the inner beauty first. Then decorate the outer.
To wear an ornament is not a wrong thing. But to wear or not to wear is one and the same.
But forming of wrong thoughts in the mind without control is an imperfection.
Think consciously. Why do you show all these decorations to that lady, who is so poor that she cannot even wear a black thread on her neck as an ornament?
What is the use of all this?
You have forgotten. That life is beautiful.
Money is not an illusion. It is a created reality.
It is your thoughts, which are illusory.
Wake up. Wake up to the reality and enjoy life.
Remember. I am a visitor, who has come to return. To return with empty hands.
Just a son of the present.
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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