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so discontent. Contentment is not something that can be acquired,
even when a person wants to be. Contentment is attained through
knowledge and worldly experience. It happens naturally and is
directly proportional to the level of one’s knowledge. It is not
something that will happen by doing anything. It is an effect, a
result. Your grade will depend upon how well you write your
examination. The examination was given in the past life. The
result is the knowledge of this life. In the same way, your
contentment will be as good as your knowledge in this life. It
is for this contentment that people work so hard. However,
what we see is the opposite. Even when they go to the latrine,
they are performing two tasks. They shave their faces while
sitting on the latrine. They have so much greed and are in such
a hurry to make money. This is called the Indian puzzle.
One lawyer shaves as he sits on the toilet and his wife
tells me that he does not even talk to her. He has become so
isolated. He is stuck in just one corner and he is constantly on
the run. He makes money and he squanders it in those other
useless places. He milks a cow and feeds the milk to a donkey.
In this day and age of kaliyug (the fifth era of the time
cycle), a person ruins his life by becoming greedy for money.
By having aartadhyan (adverse internal meditation causing harm
to ones own self) and raudradhyaan (adverse internal meditation
implicating and causing hurt to others) people lose their right to
be born as humans again. In their past life these very people
have enjoyed the luxuries of grand kingdoms and royalty. They
were never such beggars, but in this day and age their minds
have become beggarly. Their mind wants this and that! Otherwise
a person whose mind is fulfilled will walk around like a king,
even if he has nothing. Money is such a thing that it turns one’s
vision towards greed. Money increases vengeance and negative