103. Two kinds of Wealth🔗

Listen: possessing something and enjoying it are not the same. As we saw, many times, you many possess something, but you may not be able to enjoy it. In the same way, I have seen many people all over the world who cannot enjoy something unless it is legally theirs! These guys go to Miami, Hawaii, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Himalayas; they go and see such wonderful scenes, but they cannot enjoy them. The first thing they plan is, how to own an apartment in that resort or hill-station. They start calculating, 'I think I should have an apartment here, then I can come and stay every year for a vacation.'

I have seen people who go on buying apartments and beach houses in every vacation spot, but they are never able to have a vacation. They can never have a vacation, because they are too busy looking for another vacation home to buy somewhere else, and this guy who is just the watchman is just enjoying all the vacation homes.

This is what I call Kubera's wealth. In the Vedic tradition, there are two types of wealth, Kubera's wealth and Lakshmi's wealth. Kubera is a yaksha, a demi-god. He just goes on accumulating, accumulating, accumulating wealth. He neither enjoys it himself, nor allow others to enjoy it.

You can say that it is almost like Wall Street! Just go on accumulating, accumulating, numbers, numbers, numbers - and suddenly the number falls, and nobody knows why. Fictions being sold in fractions! Fictitious properties and fictitious ideas and fictitious things being constantly sold in fractions – that is Kubera's wealth. Nobody knows why it gets accumulated, nobody can enjoy it, nobody can live it, nobody knows what is going to be done with it. It is there for the future and when that future is going to come, nobody knows.

Kubera's wealth is wealth accumulated out of insecurity. Please understand, even though you set aside that wealth for difficult times, when you are really in need, it will never be useful to you - because when the need comes, you think, 'No, no, no, who knows, maybe even worse times are going to come, I need to save this wealth for those times!' This is Kubera's wealth!

Lakshmi's wealth is circulating wealth; she is wealthy, but constantly showering wealth on everyone who is worthy of it. Lakshmi is always described as a deity, a goddess who showers wealth. She is wealthy and she makes others also wealthy; she keeps the wealth is circulation. Lakshmi's wealth is always flowing, enriching everybody.

In India, they have this habit of saving wealth for future generations. In the name of saving, these old guys sit on the whole wealth, crores' worth of property. They won't have even the basic comforts for themselves, and they won't let their kids enjoy anything either. Our civilization is such that only after the father's death, the wealth can come to you. So the next generation will be sitting and praying every day - and you know what they must be praying for!

I have spent years walking throughout India, studying the culture and doing R&D and meditating and living and spending my time in different villages of India. When you go to a place, you see the casinos or beaches or restaurants, but when I go to a place I see the people. They talk to me, I talk to them. They share their problems, and I understand the culture and the people. From that experience I tell you, when people are so possessive about their property and wealth, even after they die their spirit becomes like a yaksha and continues to sit on the property. It will be stuck in some litigation and no one can enjoy the property. It will be lying there for years unused, because the original owner is not willing to let go of it even after his death! Kubera's wealth is never useful, because nobody can use it!

I have some kids who neither play with their toys nor share them with their friends. They don't know the purpose of the toy. The purpose of the toy is to play and enjoy and break it, over! Same way, may people don't know the purpose of wealth. Kubera's wealth is not wealth; it is just a sheer load on you, just sheer stress on your body, your mind and your whole system. Understand, if you are caught in that insecurity, all the wealth which you create is just Kubera's wealth, and you are only a yaksha - neither are you enjoying the wealth, nor are you allowing others to enjoy it.

If people can understand these secrets of wealth, the whole problem of the recession will be solved. The basic problem arises not from the GDP, it arises from the wrong understanding of the decision-makers. The basic problem is this wrong understanding. Kubera's wealth should be shown to the public as a security, but there is no need to keep it! If this science is applied, it can become applied vedic economy science.

Am I a Kubera or a Lakshmi?