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Money
Each person finds happiness in his or her own home. A
man living in a hut will not find happiness in a bungalow and a
man living in a bungalow will not find happiness in a hut. The
reason behind this is what people bring forth within their
‘receptacle’ of intellect (buddhi no ashay) from their past life.
People will find or come across whatever they have brought
forth within their receptacle of intellect. Whatever people bring
forth in their receptacle of intellect can be divided in two parts:
effects of merit karma and effects of demerit karma. If we
divide up what people fill in their receptacle of intellect, most of
it is to acquire material wealth and happiness and they use up
their merit karma in order to acquire these two things, leaving
them with only a very small amount to acquire spirituality.
A person brings forth in his receptacle of intellect that he
wants to acquire a lot of money. He expends a lot of his merit
karma in the process and gets his desired wealth. Another person
does the same but instead of effects of merit karma, he is faced
with effects of his demerit karma, consequently he remains broke
despite working very hard. These accounts are very exact and
precise and no one can change that. And yet these foolish
people believe the wealth they have acquired is through their
own efforts. They do not realize that they have expended their
merit karma in the process and that too, on the wrong path.
Instead why not turn around the receptacle of your intellect; if
you are to have one, the only thing worth having in it is spirituality
and nothing materialistic. The effect of merit karma has to be
spent on religion and not on useless material things like cars,
radios, televisions etc. Place the desire to know the Self, and
the desire to do good for others, as the only things in your
receptacle, which carries forth into the next life. Whatever has
come your way at the moment, let it be, but from now on
change this.