Money Is A Good Servant But A Bad Master
On November 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 value currency stand cancelled. The announcement met with varied emotions and toin-shock, surprise, anger, grief, cration, fear, panic in many, and and relief for some who believed this would arrest the growth of a llel economy. With the result that e cash hoarders-legal or othewise re in afix, and found themselves toff liquidity, some people with r denomination currency in hand aps found themselves with more deity than did a so-called 'rich on. Although the turn in fortune temporary at best, it did set everyone king: Here today, gone tomorrow! "hese few days when high-denomion paper money has been rendered ally worthless-unless of course deposited in banks-they have also been a great opportunity for us to explore our true relationship with money, to discover what money actually means to us, and to become aware that everything is ephemeral, temporary and transient. What is our relationship with money? For many of us, money means buying power, prestige, control, elevated social status, safety and security For some of us, it adjust a means of trading goods and services. And for many others, it is a lifelong craving, a want, and is often a substitute for something we lack in our lives, may be love, respect, self-esteem, confidence the or courage. become worthless to us, when we ultimately leave this world. There was actually a lot of cooperation, camaraderie and sympathy in evidence as people faced a temporary, albeit tough challenging few days. Many traders and shopkeepers were willing to accept the old currency for a day or two, without troubling the common man, knowing that they could always deposit the old currency into their bank accounts and get full credit. The brief period also taught us valuable lessons-that love, friendship, compassion, sympathy, empathy and kindness are more important than money. It almost seemed that when money came into our lives, these wonderful, humane qualities began to leave us unconsciously, often making us arrogant, egoistic and aggressive. It also raised the question: "Is money the root cause of all evil?" As one reflected on this question, and saw the positive qualities that the absence of money brought to some, one realised that these qualities were always within us. We are all born with love, withkindness and with altruism. Money is separate from our inner core values. But erroneously, when we get into money, we tend to let go of these values,and take on negative characteristics. The same is true when someone acquires power, at home, in an organisation or in government. The lure of money and power does corruptus, despite the fact that these are here today, and gone tomorrow. It is our innate insecurities, our fears, greed, guilt, an uncertain future, and our lack of faith and trust in universaprocesses that are behind our negative traits. Once we are able to connect to our higher Self and to the Divine, money or no money, wewillbegin to aciin a positive and dignified manner.
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Courtesy : PV Vaidyanathan Speaking Tree and Times of India
Money Is A Good Servant But A Bad Master
On November 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 value currency stand cancelled. The announcement met with varied emotions and toin-shock, surprise, anger, grief, cration, fear, panic in many, and and relief for some who believed this would arrest the growth of a llel economy. With the result that e cash hoarders-legal or othewise re in afix, and found themselves toff liquidity, some people with r denomination currency in hand aps found themselves with more deity than did a so-called 'rich on. Although the turn in fortune temporary at best, it did set everyone king: Here today, gone tomorrow! "hese few days when high-denomion paper money has been rendered ally worthless-unless of course deposited in banks-they have also been a great opportunity for us to explore our true relationship with money, to discover what money actually means to us, and to become aware that everything is ephemeral, temporary and transient. What is our relationship with money? For many of us, money means buying power, prestige, control, elevated social status, safety and security For some of us, it adjust a means of trading goods and services. And for many others, it is a lifelong craving, a want, and is often a substitute for something we lack in our lives, may be love, respect, self-esteem, confidence the or courage. become worthless to us, when we ultimately leave this world. There was actually a lot of cooperation, camaraderie and sympathy in evidence as people faced a temporary, albeit tough challenging few days. Many traders and shopkeepers were willing to accept the old currency for a day or two, without troubling the common man, knowing that they could always deposit the old currency into their bank accounts and get full credit. The brief period also taught us valuable lessons-that love, friendship, compassion, sympathy, empathy and kindness are more important than money. It almost seemed that when money came into our lives, these wonderful, humane qualities began to leave us unconsciously, often making us arrogant, egoistic and aggressive. It also raised the question: "Is money the root cause of all evil?" As one reflected on this question, and saw the positive qualities that the absence of money brought to some, one realised that these qualities were always within us. We are all born with love, withkindness and with altruism. Money is separate from our inner core values. But erroneously, when we get into money, we tend to let go of these values,and take on negative characteristics. The same is true when someone acquires power, at home, in an organisation or in government. The lure of money and power does corruptus, despite the fact that these are here today, and gone tomorrow. It is our innate insecurities, our fears, greed, guilt, an uncertain future, and our lack of faith and trust in universaprocesses that are behind our negative traits. Once we are able to connect to our higher Self and to the Divine, money or no money, wewillbegin to aciin a positive and dignified manner.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are PV Vaidyanathan kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : PV Vaidyanathan Speaking Tree and Times of India