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Life Lesson: The desire for money does not let you live peacefully. Just imagine, if you lose even a little money, you will have sleepless nights and your mind will be filled with anguish, or if suddenly someone is ready to give you lakhs of rupees, you will also have sleepless nights.

We think that billionaires are very rich but if we take a loan of one hundred rupees, then the billionaire person has a loan of one lakh or ten lakhs. Now who among the two became poorer and who became richer? It is very difficult to say. Shortage of money can happen at any time and place.

It doesn’t matter how much money you have. Even big companies that earn crores of rupees are drowned in debt. Does this happen or not? So why worry so much about money? We just have faith that ‘whatever is required for me, I will definitely get it’. If we work completely 100% with this feeling, then whatever we have to get, we get and whatever has to be spent, is spent.

The desire for money does not allow you to live peacefully. Just imagine, if you lose even a little money, you will have sleepless nights and your mind will be filled with anguish, or if suddenly someone is ready to give you lakhs of rupees, you will also have sleepless nights. Due to the greed of such free money, you will agree to do many things which you would never do otherwise.
You will find some reason or the other for that and will also find a difference. You never do the same things which you can do now because of the desire for this money. Very rich people are not even able to trust their friends, because they do not know whether they are really their friends or are connected to them because of their money or position.
Once something like this happened in the life of India’s famous scholar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. He was invited by the Viceroy to have dinner at his house. This is during the time of British Raj. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar went to eat wearing his ordinary dhoti and shirt, but he was not allowed to enter in those clothes, he had to go back home and come back again wearing coat and pants. At the dinner table he started feeding food items to his coat – ‘Take-take, eat-eat. Eat with pleasure. Is it delicious?’ etc.

The Viceroy and all the other people were shocked to see what was happening. Food is being fed to coat and pants. Vidyasagar said, ‘Yes, all this food is for these clothes only, because without these I was not even allowed to come inside. So these clothes should be given food, not me.
See and examine this financial desire in your life. This financial desire can bring us down very low in life. The desire for a little money, ‘What difference does it make to these four-five hundred, thousand rupees, let’s keep it with us’, where does it take us – it is very important to check this within ourselves. There is a saying in China, ‘Give to others, and you will get all, and if you keep your mouth closed, your hands will become smaller and you will get less.’ In the end, all you’ll be left with is your little, aching fingers.’ In India it is believed that today you are getting many times more in your life than what your parents gave to others. Therefore, it is very important to rise above financial desires.