Spirituality Is Keeping You Poor (Here’s Why)

Spirituality Is Keeping You Poor (Here’s Why)

Author Name:Adhvaitha

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Transcript:
(00:00) Money is spiritual. Me just saying this will make many people uncomfortable. I don't know why a big part of society has come to believe somehow that money or wealth or even power is somehow unrighteous, is somehow unspiritual. This has no grounding to it. This has no foundation to it. If you can truly understand this as a professional, as an entrepreneur in this world that money is absolutely spiritual, money is absolutely righteous when approached in the right way, it can literally change everything for you. Because what is
(00:45) blocking you from your success, what is blocking you from your ideal life is not something outside, but it is something inside. It's your own unconscious patterns that stop you from experiencing abundance, from experiencing fullness and completeness in life. And if you can get to the root of this through this video and if you can begin to accept money and wealth for what they are, everything will change very very soon.
(01:20) The ancient Vidhurani talks about how prosperity depends on dharma or good deeds and how good deeds depend on prosperity. It's very important for us to understand the worldview of sanatana dharma. Society somewhere glorifies poverty. Somehow we have come to believe as a society maybe because of colonization and because of mass unconsciousness that the pursuit of money and wealth is evil.
(01:58) And this ideology has caused so much of suffering, so much of pain, so much of scarcity in civilization which is unnecessary because to sustain life we need ara. We need wealth and money and power. Otherwise the sustainance of life on the planet especially the way the society is today with capitalism and everything is impossible. When we glorify something for example when we glorify poverty as something which is spiritual we are promoting it.
(02:32) We are accepting it and hence as a society we are living it. Why is most of society stuck in poverty today? Why is so much of society struggling to create financial freedom? The opportunities today are endless. The things that we have access to, the resources, the information, the power that we have as individuals, even with just a smartphone and an internet connection with our hands is incredible, is unimaginable.
(03:07) But yet so many professionals and entrepreneurs are stuck. They are unable to achieve their financial freedom. They are unable to achieve their ideal life. To resolve this, we need to understand the worldview of vanta and sanatana dharma. Vedanta speaks of the purarthas, the four attainments of life that is dharma, ara, kama and moka.
(03:32) Dharma is the foundation for everything. Hence the name. It is said dharma that means dharma is that which sustains. Now from this understanding if we look at society today if you look at the systems the political system the the societal structure what sustains it is actually money. The roads that we walk on, the lights that we use, the water that comes to our houses, everything, the electricity, the transportation and everything that we depend on right here, right now is sustained by money.
(04:10) So in that way, money is an aspect of dharma. Money is that which sustains. But dharma is a very deep concept. Dharma doesn't end here. Dharma is about a holistic view. It is that which sustains in the long term not just in the short term. So dharma primarily in some way boils down to morality.
(04:34) The understanding of the rishies was that if we operate from dharma then every aspect of our life will unfold in the beautiful way. If we understand dharma thoroughly, then nothing else would be necessary for us to worry about because dharma is a holistic view of what reality is, who we are in our essence and how we need to operate in this world based on who we are.
(05:02) So first let's understand certain aspects of dharma. Dharma is first of all about morality. What is the right thing for me to do? Not just for myself but for the whole. And why should we think about the whole? Because vanta says ultimately you are not separate from the world. We are one and the same. It goes on to say the consciousness within me is the same consciousness within you.
(05:25) Our bodies might look different. Our minds might look different but we are literally one and the same. We are one energy. But leaving this highest truth aside even practically we are all connected. Right here right now a war is happening in Iran and Israel. But the prices in India of goods and the essentials of gas and so on has risen because of the war.
(05:52) India is thousands of miles away from Iran and Israel. But still we are facing the consequences of this. This means that even at a practical level we are all connected. If one part of the world is suffering, the rest of us at some level we have to suffer. That's how the world is. That's how the universe is.
(06:12) Everything is one energy. Everything is connected. And when this is understood, dharma is understood. Dharma talks about how we need to understand the oneness and the connectedness between things. And once we understand this oneness, our worldview changes and our actions will change because our actions are always in alignment with our understanding.
(06:35) We will not take any action that affects someone else in any wrong way because that is the primary understanding of dharma. And then dharma is also about responsibilities. Each and every one of us we have responsibilities as individuals, as parents, as a spouse, as an employee or a founder.
(06:59) We take care of different roles and with each role comes responsibilities. If we take care of these responsibilities in the right way, we are set to be successful in that role. If you have to be a successful father or a mother, you need to take care of that responsibility in the right way. Again, when we speak about responsibilities, we are not thinking about ourselves here.
(07:20) We're thinking about the role and how it affects the others. When it comes to a parent, a parent should think about their children, not about themselves. What is right for the children is right for the role. If you are an entrepreneur, what is right for the organization, for your customers, for your stakeholders and your employees is the right decision for you.
(07:46) Now that is about responsibility when it comes to dharma. And then another aspect of dharma is purpose. It's vadharma. It is what you should be doing or it is something which is a natural expression of you. For a fish its vadma is swimming. For a bird, it's flying. It is that which we can do effortlessly and seamlessly and express ourselves.
(08:11) For human beings, it's about the same thing. What is that which is in alignment with your swabhava which is your identity and which you can do effortlessly and through which you can contribute to the world. And when you take care of the morality of things, the responsibility of your roles and your swadharma, your innate purpose through which you're expressing your full potential and contributing to the world, all forms of abundance and money is a consequence of this.
(08:42) So spirituality is a vague word, right? It's a vague English word. We can assign any meaning to it. But dharma, however, has clear meaning to it. It is that which is sustainable and only when we stop thinking just about ourselves and start expanding our understanding of the world and our self is where we move towards dharma and this is the foundation for everything.
(09:07) From this place Vidanta and Sanatan Dharma say you can go on and pursue anything right. You can pursue power, you can pursue money and wealth without any hesitations without any conflict whatsoever. And in fact you should do this. In the story of Astavakra and King Janeka after the liberation of the king Janeka, after the realization of the king, the king will begin to cry in happiness.
(09:34) He begins to say, "Oh, I finally realize myself. Happiness is my own nature." And the king bows down to the teacher that is aavakra and he says, "I will give up my kingdom because I don't need anything anymore. I'm completely happy as I am and I will surrender to you and I will stay with you." But immediately the teacher astavakra rejects this.
(10:00) Astabakra says to king, it is your moral responsibility to lead your kingdom to pursue power to take care of the people especially after you have realized the truth. After you truly understand what spirituality is because we need kings who are spiritual. We need kings who are realized and the same applies for today.
(10:28) If you are a professional, if you are an entrepreneur, if you are pursuing wealth and power, go for it. Do it with absolute awareness. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. But pursue it with dharma, with the right foundation. Otherwise, everything is meaningless. We see how entrepreneurs chase money, chase success without the right alignment, without the right understanding, and they burn out.
(10:55) Some face serious mental health issues. Some even commit suicide because they don't operate from dharma. And Vidanta says this kind of approach even leads to moka. When we start with dharma, we can do anything. We can build an enterprise consciously where we are helping millions of customers in the right way.
(11:15) We are adding value to society and we are providing employment. And as professionals, we are adding value to the organization. As people in power, we are taking care of the society in the right way. And along the way, we are also welcoming money into our lives and abundance into our lives. And this doesn't just stop here.
(11:34) When we operate from dharma, it also takes us to moka to liberation. Because ultimately liberation is just this. It's just the understanding that we are one. And when we begin to operate from the place of understanding that we are one eventually that understanding becomes a realization that understanding deepens and the deepening of dharma is moka.
(11:57) So in one way moka is nothing apart from dharma. Moka is just a realization of dharma. And so said Vanta, pursue the purharas, dharma, ara, karma, moka, pursue wealth, pursue money, pursue power, pursue even pleasures, but pursue them with the right foundation and your entire life will unfold in a beautiful way and it will eventually take you to moka that is absolute dissolution of the ego and the attainment of absolute happiness.
(12:31) And if we observe poverty was never glorified in ancient sanatana dharma. If we look at the story of Astavakra and Janaka. If we look at the story of Krishna and Arjuna. And if we look at the story of Chanaka and King Chandra Gupta Moria. Every teacher here was guiding their student to pursue wealth and power but to do it in the right way to do it with the right understanding.
(12:58) And at Advita conscious society we work with a lot of professionals and entrepreneurs. Some are at a very high level who are leading teams of more than 200 300 people and they would have achieved a lot in life but when I speak to them when we analyze what is holding them back in most cases it is this internal conflict somewhere that what I'm pursuing is not spiritual especially for those of you who are spiritually inclined and this is what we call vikalpa in one level you want to achieve success and you want to pursue money and wealth
(13:34) for your business, for your family and so on. But at some level, you need validation. Something within you says that money is unspiritual. Somehow asking for money or giving money, it's against spirituality. And once we remove this inner conflict, a lot of things change for people, we see tremendous stories of transformation unfold.
(13:57) So this can be really, really powerful. And I want you to take this away from today's video that pursuit of money is absolutely moral. So remove all your inner conflicts. In fact, go ahead and do it because if you have more money, if you have more wealth and if you are spiritual, you will only end up using it in the right way.
(14:18) You will end up taking care of your family, raising the right kinds of children, and you will also contribute to society in some way. You will pay taxes. You will be in a position of power where you are helping others in need. You will be employing people or you will be contributing to something bigger than yourself. So I want you to repeat this with me.
(14:39) Just take a deep breath and say with me, money is absolutely spiritual and the pursuit of money is absolutely moral. when I do it with dharma, when I do it with the right foundation. So to summarize all this point one, money is not unspiritual but attachment is when we are attached to things that is what leads to suffering and that is when we take the wrong decisions.
(15:20) That is why Krishna said you pursue money, you pursue your goals, you pursue your vision but be detached. Have the right understanding of dharma. Then do whatever you want. Second, in sanatana dharma, wealth was never rejected. It is regulated by dharma. Third, when earned through dharma, money becomes a form of yoga.
(15:44) It becomes a path to spiritual evolution. Fourth, wealth does not bind you. It's your identification with it. And finally, dharma and ara are codependent in many ways in today's society. Good deeds or dharma is dependent on prosperity and prosperity itself is dependent on dharma because to do good deeds to do philanthropy to help others we need money.
(16:09) If we are not financially free we can't help anyone else in that way dharma is dependent on ara and also ara or money or prosperity is dependent on dharma otherwise it is unsustainable. If we begin to pursue money in the wrong ways, if we don't add value and if we begin to take advantage of others, it is just short-term.
(16:31) Eventually, the law of karma will kick in and we will suffer because of it. So, for long-term prosperity, there needs to be dharma. And to enable dharma, there needs to be prosperity. And so we need to become a monk at heart and a warrior in action where we are internally detached where we don't have any inner conflict but externally we are focused we are pursuing our goals our vision with absolute intensity and with absolute commitment.
(17:00) And if you are a professional or an entrepreneur and if you feel like you are struggling with certain inner conflicts who knows that there is a lot of potential within them but somewhere somehow you feel stuck then I encourage you to watch this free training on conscious creation and understand more about conscious creation and if it resonates you can also apply to work with us at ACS to reach your next level effortlessly.
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