Why do developed souls often have problems with material wealth? Energy power of money. How to "make friends" with money Obey the laws of money to build relationships
Now about money and business. Spirituality and money are considered by many to be incompatible concepts. This is absolutely not the correct representation. By definition, a highly spiritual person must have sincere compassion, a desire to help those in need, to bring the light of love and goodness into this World. If a person himself barely makes ends meet or even a beggar, what kind of spirituality can there be. He has only one thought, where to get money for the most necessary things. These thoughts of his about the lack of money block him from the flow of abundance into his life and there will be no more money, no matter how hard he tries. It turns out a vicious circle that can be broken only with the help of spiritual and personal development. Why are some poor and others rich? Yes, because no one has canceled the basic Law of the Universe and it works flawlessly. In simple terms, how and about what a person thinks, so he lives. Matthew 25:29 says, “For to everyone who has it will be given and it will be multiplied, but from the one who doesn’t have, even what he has will be taken away.” We carry the causes of our misfortune or bliss, heaven or hell within ourselves. Whatever happens to us, it happens because of us. Like attracts like. So think about what you are thinking about now, and in the next moment think about what happened, what you attracted into your life. If you open your business only to earn money, and the activity itself does not give you pleasure and joy, then it will not be successful, and you will never be happy. Happiness is not in future achievements, but in you, and if there is this feeling of uplift and energy overflows and calls for action, then this state, right now, will attract situations and opportunities for even greater happiness. Realize it. Money comes to those who know how to rejoice, both in their receipt and in their spending. Worrying about money leads to a blockage of their receipts. Apply five principles to your life every day:
- Don't be angry;
- Don't worry;
- Be filled with gratitude;
- Devote yourself completely to work (primarily spiritual);
- Be kind to people.
Awareness of these postulates and their application in everyday life fills a person with vital energy. There is energy for the realization of their intentions, there is joy from the implementation of their plans. The energy of joy attracts the energy of abundance. The Universe creates the conditions for the fulfillment of the plan and the process of improving well-being has been launched. The main thing is to keep such an attitude, regardless of the undesirable situations that will happen at first, while the subconscious mind has not yet completely freed itself from negative attitudes. Believe in yourself. Believe in your Divine essence and move forward and deep into yourself. There is no happiness and joy in the future, realize this. The future is what you create every moment of your life now. I have a lot of useful information that will help you quickly and painlessly realize the basics of changing your consciousness. If you need help, then write to me in the form below, what is the main problem that is preventing you from living a full and joyful life right now. I will send you the appropriate release material, absolutely free of charge, or we can chat via skype or email if the need arises. This information will not be made publicly available. She's too valuable to me. It is important for me to get a response to my help, so as not to burn out again, helping people disinterestedly. When I receive sincere gratitude from a person and see that he has become happier and more successful thanks to my help, the energy of joy fills me, and the intention to help people increases. There will be a separate article on the importance of energy exchange. Your feedback and wishes will encourage me to write new articles. I look forward to your feedback. Share with your friends if you liked the article. See you again.
There is a certain written postulate that money and spiritual development are incompatible. “And it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God,” is a well-known phrase, and I’m not afraid of this word, even beaten. For thousands of years, various gurus have been saying that you need to give up everything material, because everything is mortal, that you need to strive for spiritual development. Hence, the program sits in the heads of the total majority of spiritual adepts: “Money is evil, money moves away from God, it hinders development, a spiritual person should not have material savings. Money is low-vibration, it grounds, etc.”
Is this true?
Not at all. And now we delve into the topic and expand our understanding of this issue. So, money is ultimately energy, which is one of the foundations of our world. Souls come to experience various experiences in material reality, therefore, to reject materiality is an absolutely profane approach in the field of spiritual development. Understand that money is neither good nor bad ... it's just energy, and a person can already paint it in some positive or negative context.
Examples:
- A person wants to make a fortune, does not shun anything, goes over their heads, his hands are up to his elbows in blood, but he still becomes a millionaire. Everyone is murmuring: “How is it? What a bad person. Money is evil, because that's how much evil he did in the name of enrichment. Where is the justice? Why do evil and bad people have all the money, and good people live from penny to penny. Probably, this is how God intended that money is always associated with evil, and they are not destined for a spiritual person ... "
- A person brings something into this world that helps people, for example, he invents a medicine that heals. Naturally, for the sake of this, people are ready to pay him and pay a lot, he becomes rich, but now he can spend this money on new projects that will further improve people's lives, he does charity work, for which the Universe gives him even more money. That is, a person brings something constructive into this world ... and for this he is rewarded with financial well-being.
And he is rich and the other, but money in the hands of the first becomes a destructive element (which, of course, is recorded in his karma, and later he will be rewarded), and in the second case, monetary energy becomes a good tool aimed at creating and harmonizing external space.
Got a chip? Money is neutral in nature, it can be directed both in plus and in minus. You live in society, which means that you cannot run away from contact with monetary energy, and it depends on your choice: whether you will live in prosperity and prosperity, and money will bring benefit and goodness to you and those around you, or you will be in constant financial need, but proudly declaring that a spiritual person does not need finances, because these are “low-frequency” energies that sow evil and destruction (which in no way actually advances you spiritually).
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One person wrote to me on social networks once with a message that he wants to learn Reiki. After he studied the links that I gave, there was an answer: "Yes, the spiritual path is expensive now. Probably, it is only for wealthy people."
I immediately remembered my case. It was many years ago. I then lived in Moscow, I was 21 years old, and worked at a state enterprise. The salary was so low that it was enough for me to pay for corporate housing, for a subscription to the subway and for food, the remaining money was only enough for two weeks. Next, I had to borrow. Clothes, spiritual paths, or seminars to attend were out of the question. But I didn't whine. I eagerly searched for ways that would help me get out of the darkness of my consciousness and start a new life full of light and abundance.
And so, when I was given a good bonus at work for my competence, responsibility and high-quality performance of my duties, the first thing I did was sign up for a Reiki Level 1 seminar and, thanks to the tool I received, I began to actively work on myself and change my life for the better. I received amazing results for myself - abundance, light, happiness, the fullness of life, the fulfillment of my dreams and access to my destiny.
Conclusion: the funds that come to us - they are given to us only for our development.
One lady kept whining that she lives poorly, what kind of "spiritual path" is there. When I once went to her apartment, I saw how many things around her were constantly buying up and which were already so numerous that they fell out of the closets and lay all over the house. And, of course, there were no funds left for the spiritual path.
A person embarks on the spiritual path when he is ready. And the money comes right away. Reiki is not late, it comes on time.
In addition, we do not need payment, you need it.
Because what you got for free will never be appreciated by you in your life. And even where it says "free", it's a trap. As a result, you will later pay very dearly: with your mental and physical health, losses, sorrows. Because who pays for you? Bes. And then decently removes this debt for you.
Be very wary of those services where you are promised them for free.
For free cheese is only in a mousetrap.
Dr. Mikao Usui, after he received the Initiation into Reiki at Mount Kurama, decided to heal people for free. Because they were poor, they had nothing to pay. And now everyone whom he helped, after a while, began to come to him again and again. And then he asked them: why didn't you use the chance you got to change your life for the better, get out of poverty?
To which they replied: we did not start a new life, because working is too hard. It is better to remain poor.
Dr. Usui was deeply shocked and very sad. He realized that he had forgotten to teach them gratitude.
P.S. A couple of people this text, after publication, touched. Just hooked like that, good. People, indignant, wrote that they were offended, condemned.
Everyone saw in the text what he has inside himself. I saw my face!
So, everything is not in vain. This text, whom it hooked, launched a movement in a person from hibernation to awakening, it hit the nail on the head. This means that the grain will fall into the right soil and will sprout, and there will be good fruits. Just like we did in our time.
Why do people think that spirituality is an inner wealth, but not an outer one? Why do people think that spirituality requires asceticism and avoidance of the material? Why are people afraid of spirituality?
Many people live as best they can - someone is happy outwardly, but something constantly weighs on him inside, someone is unhappy both externally and internally. And why? Why is there constant dissatisfaction within us? We are constantly looking for something, but we do not find it. We complain about work, bosses, we changed jobs and bosses, the salary is twice as high as before, again dissatisfaction. The car is old, I bought a new one, a year of joy and again dissatisfaction. The wife nags every day, the children with their petty problems, you can change the family, but dissatisfaction does not disappear. We go to one, another, hundredth resorts ... everything has become boring and nothing pleases us anymore. Why? Yes, because material goals are quite achievable, and achieving the goal inevitably leads to disappointment.
The spiritual goal is unattainable, you can develop in different directions, and most importantly, behind every turn a new spiral of development awaits you, a new step of ascent and there is no disappointment, but only the desire to go further, with each step the ego leaves and new knowledge, understanding of the world opens up, themselves, the laws of the universe and interaction in nature.
We all have material goals, we can list them for a long time, they are clear and precise, but can we name spiritual goals with the same ease?
Spirituality does not require asceticism, the rejection of work and money, spirituality organically enters everyday life and fills it with meaning. Only spirituality will give answers to your questions, because you will receive them not from the outside (friend, family, TV, newspapers, etc.), but from within - your inner higher "I", your heart will answer you and only such an answer will be accepted you unconditionally and without hesitation. Is it difficult to learn to listen to your inner self? No more difficult than trusting a friend and his advice.
Our whole life is the result of our actions, actions are the result of our thoughts, our thoughts are our consciousness, it is superfluous to say that the purer (spiritual) consciousness, the purer our thoughts and desires, the more correct and meaningful our life. Whatever work we do, we can do it as a routine, as a duty, as a formality, as a favorite job, and as a blessing. There are no unnecessary people, we all perform some function in life, and whether we are aware of this function or not, it already depends only on us. We are tools in the hands of nature, but we have moved away from nature so much that we have not only forgotten how to hear and understand it, but also decided that we are the masters of nature and the world as a whole. The problem is that we are not the owners and nothing belongs to you and me.
Those few who understand the importance of spiritual development and who have realized that material well-being is not the highest good, put off entering the spiritual path until later. When for later? We have no time - we are in a hurry to make a career, successfully marry / get married, raise children, buy apartments for them, nurse grandchildren, etc., we have obligations to family, work, society, but we also have obligations to our own soul. We came into this world to learn, develop and become better, to help others, so why in old age do we regret the aimlessly lived life, the missed years and opportunities?
The harmony of life is a balance between the outer and the inner, between the material and the spiritual, like the wings of a bird, and if one wing is underdeveloped or broken, there will be no flight.
I wish everyone to start acting and changing right now, and not postponing it for later!
Elena Matvienko
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth... but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
[Mat. 6:19-21]
The Gospel of Luke describes the scene of one of the temptations of Jesus Christ by the chief priests and scribes. Fearing to openly lay hands on the Messiah, they “sent crafty people” who asked Jesus the question: “Are we allowed to give tribute to Caesar, or not? And he, understanding their wickedness, said to them, Why are you tempting me? Show Me a denarius: whose image and inscription is on it? They answered: Caesarean. He said to them: Render therefore what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God” [Luke 20:23-25].
This is how the Lord proposes to solve the problem of spirituality and money - a problem that has been worrying humanity for more than one millennium and has risen with new urgency in our time, which is a transitional period in the Age of Aquarius and is called in the Christian tradition the Apocalypse or Armageddon, and in the East - Kali Yuga, Black Age. Even the Vishnu Puranas, which are several thousand years old, gave the following description of our time: “Property will become a single measure. Wealth will be the cause of worship."
In a broad sense, the problem of money is not so much a question of wealth as a problem of relations in the mind of a person as a microcosm between his spiritual world and his way of life, the material side of life. A number of figures in philosophy, religion, science, and art tried to find the golden mean between the material and the spiritual. Let us recall at least such works of fiction as the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the comedies "One Hundred Thousands" and "The Master" by Ivan Karpenko-Kary, the comedy "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare, the play "The Miserly Knight" by Alexander Pushkin, the story " Gobsek" by Honore de Balzac, the dramas "Zhivoglot, or the Spider" and "Olesya" by Mark Kropivnitsky, the comedy "The Miser" by Jean-Baptiste Moliere, the poem "Dead Souls" and the story "Portrait" by Nikolai Gogol, the short stories "Necklace", "Million ”, “Weaver of straw chairs”, “Hand” by Guy de Maupassant and others.
First of all, let's define what exactly we mean by the word "spirituality". There are many definitions to varying degrees successfully or unsuccessfully interpreting this term. In our understanding, spirituality begins with the consciousness overcoming the feeling of egocentrism, “spiritual possessiveness” and the entry of this consciousness into the Hierarchy of the Forces of Light as a co-creator, “created in the image and likeness of the Lord God”, the Supreme Creator. The nature of God is a comprehensive and all-pervading Love and the process of creation-birth of everything new and new, more and more perfect, ascending to new peaks of harmony. The development of consciousness allows a person to become a co-creator-assistant of the Supreme Demiurge: it is no coincidence that the name “man” means “human consciousness going through centuries-eternity”. The development of consciousness is promoted by the material world, where it is embodied. And the material world is, first of all, the world of forms, in which particles of the spirit (souls, each of which has its own individual consciousness) are enclosed. The relation of each soul to any other soul, group of souls or to all souls taken together, to the macrocosm determines both the level of its consciousness and to which camp of forces - light, dark or gray - it belongs.
The differences between the three spiritual camps are determined not only by the names and "color characteristics", but also by the internal structure of both the camps themselves and their individual representatives. Thus, the camp of the Forces of Light is characterized by a feeling of spiritual equality between souls, regardless of the hierarchical level at which the consciousness of each of these souls is located. All relationships in this camp are built on the principles of expediency and free will of each of the brotherly souls. Each consciousness creates at its own level, voluntarily contributing to the common cause of the evolution of the macrocosm-universe, the very name of which emphasizes its “dormitory”, fraternal essence.
Relations in the camp of dark forces are the exact opposite of relations in the previous camp and are built on violence, iron discipline, the unquestioning fulfillment of the orders of the lower hierarch by the higher and the prohibition of personal initiative and creativity. At the same time, the consciousness of each of the representatives of this camp seeks to absorb all the other souls into itself, to possess them, becoming the only and largest “I” in the entire Universe, subjugating the Supreme Creator to itself.
The gray camp is more likely not a camp, but a gathering of souls, which include more than 9/10 human souls. The consciousness of the gray or, by definition of Jesus Christ, the "warm", is related to the dark by consumerism, the desire to possess, but distinguishes the desire to escape from any responsibility. In other words, this is a bunch of "professional traitors" who are just waiting for the right moment to grab something, but at the same time they do not want to risk anything.
The outstanding Russian visionary Daniil Andreev (1906-1959) wrote well about the principles of building the three camps in his fundamental work “The Rose of the World” in the chapter “The Origin of Evil. world laws. Karma". We touched on them so that later it would be easier to describe the attitudes towards the material world and, in particular, towards the money of the representatives of these three camps.
Back in the 6th century BC. The outstanding ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu formulated the following spiritual principle: we own only that which we have refused to own. In the book "Tao Te Ching" this sage says: "There is no greater misfortune than not knowing the limits of one's passion, and there is no greater danger than the desire to acquire [wealth]. Therefore, he who knows how to be satisfied is always satisfied [with his life]” (Verse 46). The Roman Stoic Epictetus considered free only that person who wants only what he can get. In the 17th century, the English philosopher John Locke called a free person who knows how to control his passions.
In other words, we spiritually have only that to which we are not attached, that, having physically, we are not afraid to lose, and, not having physically, we are not burning with passion to acquire. This principle provides, in our opinion, the key to understanding the problems of money. One of the cornerstones of the essence of the dark is the feeling of ownership, which is a manifestation of the desire for possession - the subordination of any soul, enclosed in one of the forms, to one's personal will.
The consciousness that follows the path of Light is not attached to anything because it trusts itself to God's Will and knows that God, when necessary, will give it everything necessary for its further development, and what is no longer needed will be transferred to those consciousnesses to which it will be needed now at their present level of development. The consciousnesses of the dark and gray ones tend to accumulate more and more forms and enslave the souls enclosed in them: the only difference is that the dark ones do this by open robbery, and the gray ones - mainly by theft. Money, on the other hand, which initially arose as a kind of equivalent of labor, the expenditure of mental and physical energy for the manufacture of goods, indirectly contributes to the achievement of this goal of possession-enslavement.
It is worth noting that money itself has a certain magical power, which is primarily aimed at inciting the passions of possession in the grays and attacking the camp of the Forces of Light using cowardice and betrayal of the grays. As an example, we can take the Think and Grow Rich series of books, which offer humanity nothing more than gray magic. A person wants to have a certain amount of money or some thing and begins to constantly think about it, saturating the mental image created by him with the emanations of his psychic energy.
An energy funnel unwinds, which grows in strength as a person feeds it with new emanations of psychic energy. At some stage, the power of the funnel becomes sufficient to draw into itself what its parent dreams of possessing: the genie comes out of the bottle, so that, having fulfilled three wishes (=breaking through three layers of the aura of the creator of such a mental image), become the owner of the soul of an unaware of this "self-taught magician". At the same time, the funnel created by him draws in, takes away the desired from those who possess it physically, but have less strength than the forces of the funnel.
The very same parent of the funnel seems to be not to blame for what happened: he was not going to take it from anyone in particular from the people, and as if he didn’t take it away (as it seems to him and as it seems to an uninitiated person), and the thing he desired “itself” to him came. But such an "obvious" justification is nothing but a fiction, by no means freeing the thief from retribution: the dark ones only delay the return blow for a while. And the longer this blow is not dealt, the stronger and more unexpected it will be later: let us remember the well-known saying “Whom God loves more, punishes more”, which is pervertedly understood by most people. On a clean surface, every speck becomes immediately visible and it is easier to remove it, and on a dirty one - a larger stain, a smaller stain - imperceptibly, and in order to clean it, you need to spend much more time and effort than cleaning a barely soiled surface.
After the first victory-acquisition of a novice gray magician, his strength increases and there is a desire to possess (“at least”) something more than he desired at the first time. The second, then the third "victory" comes, and the genie enters his soul. The ability to concentrate one's psycho-energy-will and focus on mental images increases. The gray magician feels an increase in his magical power and decides to open robbery, turning into a black one...
This is how the stage-by-stage so-called "selling of the soul" takes place. At the same time, darkness uses the gray magician as a kind of gate for penetrating into the sphere of people, making him Judas the traitor: after all, the dark ones cannot directly penetrate into human souls and they need some kind of intermediary who will “open the gates to the enemy at night”, having sold out for 30 pieces of silver . True, the amount of money or their material correspondence (equivalent) will not necessarily correspond to the named amount, which has already become a household name, but will be equal to the amount that is in a certain way commensurate with the potency and level of consciousness of the traitor, and for which he himself agrees to “sell out”.
Speaking of money, it is worth noting that, being the brainchild of the exchange of one commodity for another (barter) - created to facilitate and accelerate the exchange - over time, they became one of the most important means of substitution: initially, a relatively equivalent exchange turns into a deception-substitution. Let's see how it happens. Money arose at a certain stage of barter-trade as a kind of monetary commodity: the first money was made from precious metals (gold and silver), which in themselves were a commodity. According to Herodotus and other ancient authors, the first coins began to be made in the Malaysian country of Lydia in the 7th century BC. The material for them was an electron - an alloy of silver and gold. A few decades later, coins began to be minted in the Greek city of Aegina. From Lydia and Aegina, coins quickly spread throughout Greece, its colonies, in Iran, and then among the Romans and among the Slavic tribes. Coins made of precious metals were an accurate expression of the nature of money: the coin had both a banknote and monetary marketability at the same time.
Over time, money began to be made from cheaper metals and began to lose its marketability, but retained its iconic character. Later, banknotes appeared, which also retained their symbolism, but the marketability of which had already been reduced to almost zero. By issuing banknotes, the state bank undertook to confirm the importance of the country's monetary unit with gold content - the amount of gold available in this country and attributable to each of the banknotes. But it is very difficult to control the amount of gold in the country, and this allows banks to issue banknotes that are not really supported by the level of gold content that the state bank officially announces.
Let us recall an interesting and instructive fact in this regard, when the President of France, General Charles de Gaulle, in the 1960s, collected all the US dollars available in the country and asked the United States to change them for gold. After that, the United States for a long time "pouted" at France, ending economic relations with it, because the real dollar exchange rate was much lower than the declared one.
Or here is another fact that can be found in the press and which concerns the same United States: they spend 3 cents on issuing one hundred dollar bill, and export goods for 100 dollars, and if all countries of the world would simultaneously ask the United States to change the dollars for any value, then the United States should immediately cease to exist. The discrepancy between the real and the declared exchange rates allows for substitutions: through “empty”, unconfirmed gold reserves, to pump goods and raw materials of real value from economically weaker countries to stronger (and more often more arrogant, aggressive, “unscrupulous”) countries.
Over time, such substitutions lead to the fact that the currencies of several economically more developed countries reign throughout the world. These currencies are becoming more and more iconic and help to further enslave the backward countries. Ultimately, the currency of one country will come to power, which will not at all correspond to “its gold content”, but will control the gold and the economy of all other countries. It will be replaced by an equivalent equivalent: money, being the equivalent of labor-commodity, will be replaced by an electronic equivalent - highly conditional and intangible money. With the help of such a metamorphosis of money, the same individual “computer-advanced” hackers will be able to quickly and, so to speak, quite significantly enrich themselves (albeit for the time being) without leaving their homes.
Along the way, it is worth noting that according to the teachings of Agni Yoga given to us for this transitional period, theft of money or things is bad in itself, first of all, not because someone is deprived of something, but because theft enhances the feeling of ownership as from the one who stole, and from the one from whom it was stolen. It was the feeling of ownership that Jesus Christ meant when he said that “it is difficult for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Lk. 18:24-25]. At the same time, we note that the same Agni Yoga advises giving alms not with money, but with things, products, or helping a person with physical labor - in order to less contribute to the emergence of a sense of possessiveness.
Speaking of the rich, it should be emphasized that not every rich person is an owner: let us recall at least the examples of the Buddha or the disciple of Seraphim of Sarov, the landowner Motovilov. The owner, the tradesman - is only one who is obsessed with the passion of possession. You can have nothing and still be an owner, or you can have millions and not be an owner, and even get into the Kingdom of Heaven. Indicative of this is the example of the Buddha and two of His disciples. One of them lived in great wealth, and the other had nothing but clothes on himself. At the same time, the Buddha reproached the poor every day for a sense of ownership. Finally, every time the offended poor student could not stand it and asked why the Teacher constantly scolds him, who has nothing, for his sense of ownership, but does not say anything to the rich student. To this question, the Buddha answered that this rich disciple is not attached to his wealth, and the questioner, although he does not have anything physically, is constantly burning inside with the passion of possessing wealth and is attached to it with his whole being.
So, it is not so much the amount of money in itself that is important, but the attitude towards it. Let us recall the case when the rich sacrificed very expensive things in the temple to show high faith and love for God, and Jesus Christ said that the widow sacrificed the most to God, putting on the altar only a mite - the smallest coin: for the rich donated from the excess, and the widow had nothing but this coin.
The concepts of wealth and poverty are relative to a certain extent, and the criterion of whether money harms a particular person or not will most likely be only his internal state (thoughts and feelings) in relation to this money. It is important that a person thinks about the work he is doing, and perceives money only as one of the means to its implementation. Even a few rubles is a lot for a drunkard, and as soon as they appear, he immediately drinks them away. And someone operates at the country level and a few million dollars does not cause any obsession for him and he thinks about how best to use them. Although, given the magical power of money in itself (it is no coincidence that there are many different Masonic signs on the same US dollars), it should be said that each amount of money also has its own specific magical power. But the effect of this force on people is relative and depends on the level of consciousness, spiritual orientation and the idea that this person serves. It is no coincidence that Jesus Christ said that “to everyone who has it will be given, but from the one who does not have even what he has will be taken away” [Lk. 19:26].
Many, being poor, are afraid of being poor. Let us recall that in Rus' the church sometimes blessed some spiritually strong people for begging as one of the ways of spiritual work. The ascetic who took on such a cross completely relied only on the Will of God and on his own labor, reaching a state that is the ideal of religious feeling. That is why Jesus Christ emphasized in his Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven” [Matt. 5:3]. Blessed are those who are with God, like the poor for alms, asking for Wisdom and Love. Let us recall the great sage and saint of antiquity, King Solomon, who asked God not for wealth, like other kings, but only for wisdom. Having given Solomon wisdom at his request, the Lord gave him everything else in addition. The great righteous man, relying only on his own mind and strength, is farther from God than the last sinner, in the depths of whose soul lives the ability to love and hope in the Will of God. It will be easier for such a sinner to repent of his sins and return to the Heavenly Father as a prodigal son than for a righteous man who, by the power of his will, is able to force himself to act according to the commandments of God, but at the same time has lost the love and ability to forgive others their sins.
The impact of money on some people can lead to one of the forms of obsession, which at first glance are completely different, but are two sides of the same coin - either to hoarding, or to squandering, squandering. It is no coincidence that the visionary of the Middle Ages, the Italian Dante Alighieri, in his mystical journey through other material worlds, saw both misers and squanderers in one place (in the 4th circle of Hell), where “two hosts walked, army to army, pushing loads with their chests, with an eternal cry ; then they huddled together and again trudged back with difficulty, shouting to each other: "What to save?" or “What to throw?” - and, moving in a gloomy circle, went to the opposite point, from two sides, still swearing through the effort; and back again, their semicircle was barely completed by the same gloomy fight.
Lao Tzu also speaks of the stingy: “He who saves a lot will suffer great losses. He who accumulates much will suffer great losses. He who knows the measure will not fail” (Verse 44).
Of those who know the measure, he also says, “I am frugal, so I can be generous” (Verse 67). The correct attitude to material values is also evidenced by our homonym as "good", which in the material sense implies property, and in the spiritual sense - the possession of high spiritual qualities. That is, a kind person is not someone who can be called a spiritual miser or a spender, but someone who finds the right measure in relations with each other, a certain proportion between excessive adherence to principles and unscrupulousness.
It is worth noting that each soul at a certain stage of its evolution passes the test of lack of money, and at a certain stage - an excess of money. And often passing the second test is much more difficult than the first. In our time, which is a transition in the era of Aquarius, when there is an acceleration of evolution and a strong polarization of society, almost all people are forced to go through one of these tests. At the same time, the processes of globalization contribute to the ever greater aggravation of such polarization. Human relations in a society of absolutization of consumerism and an incredible increase in the flow of goods contribute to the fact that a few can quickly and greatly enrich themselves in a short time, and a huge number of other people also quickly find themselves below the poverty line.
Although it must be admitted that such inherently problems are typical not only for our time. Referring to the same Lao Tzu, in his aforementioned small treatise "Tao Te Ching" we find quite a lot of places concerning the issue of spirituality and money. “If the palace is luxurious, then the fields are covered with weeds and the granaries are completely empty, [Know] dresses in luxurious fabrics, carries sharp swords, is not satisfied with [ordinary] food and accumulates excessive wealth. All this is called robbery and bragging. It is a violation of the Tao” (Verse 53). “The people are starving because the authorities take too much taxes” (Verse 75). “The perfectly wise is just and does not take anything from another. He is selfless and does not harm others” (Verse 58). “A perfectly wise man is like one who dresses in coarse cloth and carries jasper with him” (Verse 70).
From ancient times, it was believed that an ordinary layman could be more successful in spiritual practice with an average income: a poor person is too busy worries about the material side of his life, and a rich person is under the illusion that he can buy everything with money, including spirituality. Now, the burdensome conditions of physical existence are designed to accelerate the period of spiritual maturation of mankind. At the same time, money and prosperity form a kind of castes, compartments of society. Moreover, it cannot be said that being rich is better or easier. After all, the rich are in constant tension created by money and concern for their preservation and increase, and are also strongly subject to the rules and huge restrictions that the lifestyle established in his circle-caste dictates to him.
So happiness is not in money and not in their quantity, but in the preservation of a person’s ability to create and the freedom of will associated with it, as well as in the ability to find the right measure for everything, to “pay tribute” to Caesar and God, to know which “part” to separate. It is no coincidence that the very word “happiness” has the same “part” in itself and implies a harmonious combination of parts into a spiritual whole, the involvement of each consciousness in the matter of evolution and the plan of the Supreme Creator.
Notes:
Wed German mann, english man ("man"), rooted Skt. manas ("mind") and lat. manus ("hand" - an organ that is evolutionarily the most highly developed and more closely associated with the brain and consciousness).
Wed French bras ("hand"), Rus. "take", "brothers", "gather"; Universe-universe \u003d inhabited, tracing paper from Greek. "oecumene", where "oikeo" - "I live, inhabit, live."
The lexeme "property" has a common origin with the words "property", "individual", "person", "isolation", "way", "one's own", "freedom", "ability".
By the way, still cheap at the same time.
The lexeme "coin" ("money minted from metal") originates from lat. moneta, which originally meant "mint", which was arranged by the ancient Romans at the temple of the goddess Juno. According to legend, Juno promised the Romans that in the war with Pyrrhus they would not lack money if they fought this war fairly. When the promise of the goddess was fulfilled, the Romans called her “Coin”, which means “adviser”, “warning”.
The division into biblical "goats" and "sheep".
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