HAVE THE RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH WEALTH🔗

SATURDAY, 23RD MARCH, 2013

I welcome you all with my love and respects. Listen! I will expand on how the principle of integrity expands your wealth, and the ability to create and celebrate wealth.

First, let me define sampoorti, integrity. Integrity means you fulfilling the word and thought you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing a state of poornatva - completion with yourself and with life.

Let me define wealth. Wealth means, having the resources in the inner world and the outer world, available for you to fulfill what you feel as your life's purpose.

Listen! Wealth is having the resources at your disposal, in the inner world and the outer world, to achieve what you decide as your life's purpose. Wealth needs to be understood. If you have crores of rupees and do not have health to even stand up, then it is useful. Wealth is having the resources both in the inner world and in the outer world, to fulfill your life's purpose. Listen! I am not restricting wealth to the zeros added in your bank balance. I am not restricting wealth to the infrastructure available to you. Wealth is having the resources in the inner and the outer world, to fulfill your life's purpose.

How does integrity expand it? Listen! What is integrity? Honoring the words you give to yourself and others as life. First look in! Do you really want wealth, consistently in your inner space? If you look in, you will see that you have greed for wealth, but you are not ready to take the responsibility that comes with wealth. To acquire wealth, you need to take up responsibility. To possess wealth, you need to take up certain responsibilities. To celebrate it, to celebrate its existence, you need to take up some responsibility. To spend wealth, you need to take up some responsibility. Look inside! You have so much of hatred towards all those responsibilities. Then, how do you say that you want wealth?

If you analyze your mind and your attitude towards wealth with integrity, you will understand that you are actually afraid of wealth. You hate wealth! That is the truth. Many times, you sit and calculate, 'If I take responsibility and make wealth in a few years, then I will possess it for a few years, then I will spend it in a few years' By the time you complete your calculation, you understand that when you start spending, you are old and your life is gone! So you think, ‘Oh God! My whole life will be gone if I take responsibility for wealth and start accumulating it! So it is better for me to just fantasize about wealth and go on blaming myself that I don’t have it, and just retain the greed. Somewhere, I might win a lottery or Nithyananda Swami will bless me for wealth!’ No! At the most, I will bless you to have wealth to do some meditation program and have the right mental set-up, that’s all! Not more than that. Have the right mental set-up; that will bring wealth. I will always bless you for that.

The fear of responsibility and the greed for wealth always go hand-in-hand. If you look in, you have greed for wealth, but you are not ready to take the responsibility that comes with wealth!

We keep our greed, thinking that one day, this egg will hatch. Understand, if the egg is broken from outside, a life is destroyed. A life is killed! The possibility is over! If the egg is broken from inside, then life happens! Life comes out! If you take up the responsibility for your greed, you break the egg from inside and life happens; wealth happens; expansion happens. If you just keep the greed, but have not taken the responsibility, then fear will attack from outside and break the egg. Then the possibility is over!

Are you going to keep your life as a fight between fear and greed, or a victory of responsibility? Responsibility continuously declares Isvaratva, victory, leadership! Look in! Spend a little time with yourself. Do manana - intranalizing. Are all your thoughts about wealth in integrity with your desires? Are they in integrity with your desires and with your responsibility?

Just yesterday, I found a dangerous pattern with one of my sannyasinis.

I told her, ‘You be healthy. You have to take class. I am able to rest only because you are taking the class. If not, the load will fall on me. Be healthy.’ And with all the humility, gratitude, dedication and sacrifice, she melted down. She said, ‘Swamiji, I will work, work, and work and fall at your feet and die! You don’t worry! You take rest!’ I said, ‘Don’t suffer with this pattern!’

We have the idea that we will be like Paramahamsa Yogananda, who gave discourses until the end of his life. He was giving a discourse until the end of his life and just dropped his body gracefully and achieved mahasamadhi. Or like many other yogis who think, ‘We will work, work and work and leave the body.’ Please understand, I am not disrespecting any of those great yogis. All I am trying to tell you and my sannyasini is this - why should you have the wrong visualization? Instead, visualize this! ‘I will work, work, and work and become more and more healthy! I will live for at least a hundred-and-fifty or two-hundred years and then leave the body, at my will!’ Have the right integrity, because your integrity creates the body.

Work does not need to make you tired. It is a wrong idea taught to you by society. The only two enemies human beings have are boredom and tiredness. When you entertain them, you build wrong patterns. When you are bored of doing some work, you invoke tiredness: Om Tiredness

Swaaha! Ihagachcha! Ihagachcha! (chants to invoke the presence of a diety or a quality) Please come here! Come here! Reside here! Reside here!' You invoke tiredness! You invoke depression! 'Oh Depression Devathaya! Ihagachcha! Ihagachcha! Ihatishtta ihatishtta, I will do pooja for you. Please come here and settle down!'

Scrutinize your inner space with integrity. Intranalize your inner space. You will see that whenever you don't want to take responsibility, you invoke boredom, tiredness and fear. Sometime, even greed is used as a substitute for enjoyment. Listen! Sometimes, greed is used as a substitute for real wealth. You know that to enjoy the wealth you really need to take responsibility. But now, you don't want to take the responsibility. So, what do you do? You just fantasize that you have wealth like a huge palace in the centre of the city. In India, these crazy fellows always love to live in the downtown; while in the western countries they like to live in the suburbs. You fantasize a huge bungalow in the downtown, with hundreds of cars and workers! Many times, by the time you finish your fantasy, you are tired and fall asleep, which you are very comfortable about!

Greed and fantasy are used as substitutes for alcohol and drugs. Listen, when you have the pattern of addiction for alcohol and drugs, you go for it. When you are afraid that they will spoil your health, you use fantasy and greed as a substitute for alcohol. Fantasy and greed are powerful substitutes for alcohol!

Intranalize yourself with integrity. You will understand that most of the time - a hundred percent of the time - your relationship with wealth is not taking responsibility to make it a reality! It is more like, 'Let me just have a fantasy about wealth and live with it!' You don't want to take the responsibility of making it a reality in your life. You just want to keep wealth as a fantasy in your life.

I tell you, wealth as reality is Lakshmi, it is fulfilling. Wealth in reality, was never renounced in the Vedic tradition. In the viraja homa mantra, the sannyas mantra, you declare before taking sannyas:

Shreescha Lakshmischa Pushtischa Keerthim cha Aanrunyathaam | Brahmanyam Bahuputhrathaam |' If the Vedic tradition was against wealth, why will you ask for wealth before taking sannyas? It is a Viraja homa mantra, a sannyasa mantra.

Listen! Vedic tradition was never against wealth. Vedic tradition is against the fantasy about wealth. It is against you not taking the responsibility for wealth. Have the right relationship with wealth. It should be like a stable marriage relationship. Your relationship with wealth should be like a stable, responsible relationship, and not just fantasy or flirting. If you want wealth in your life, you should be able to take the responsibility for the wealth. You should be able to take the responsibility to make it, live it and celebrate it.

One of the important lessons you need to learn is that only people with integrity create and celebrate wealth. You always think that only people without integrity get wealth. You think, ‘I am with integrity; that is why I don’t get wealth.’ No! You are wrong!

You are wrong! Only people with integrity get and celebrate wealth. For people without integrity, even if they have it, it will be in the Swiss bank! They only know the zeros, shoonyas.

I tell you, when you make money without integrity, you will never be able to live with it. When integrity brings you wealth, you live and celebrate it. I tell you, only wealth earned with integrity can be lived and celebrated!

Wealth created with integrity brings fulfilment to you and your life’s purpose. I can see this in my own organization. When you hand over some property or wealth to the swamis and swaminis who have taken responsibility, they enrich the world using that wealth properly. But if you hand over property to people who have not taken responsibility, they destroy it in a few months. They are again standing as beggars with a begging bowl, in a few months.

With integrity, you will first build the right relationship with wealth. You will not have fear. Sometimes, if you intranalyze, you will find that if some wealthy person behaves egoistically or arrogantly, you think, ‘If I have wealth, I will also become like that! Let me not have wealth,’ and you start hating wealth. You start living without wealth because you are afraid that you may become egoistic or arrogant, if the wealth comes to you. I tell you, if somebody wants to be arrogant, he will be arrogant even if he doesn’t have wealth. Poverty, like wealth, is equally capable of making you arrogant.

Listen, I have seen this in my experience. The so-called poor people are the most arrogant people. At least the wealthy people become polite, because they have a lot of experience in the society and they get beaten by the society. They become polite, polished, humble, and processed.

But these so-called poor fellows are so arrogant, that they demand hundred times more than what they can take responsibility for or a hundred times more than their worth, and then, they say, ‘Because I am poor, you are not ready to give me this.’ So, I tell you, if somebody decides to become arrogant, wealth is only a reason. Even without wealth, that person can be arrogant. But if you start thinking in your heart, ‘These fellows have become arrogant because of wealth; if I become wealthy, I may also become arrogant!,’ then your hatred towards arrogance, turns towards wealth.

Only if you intranalize this, will you understand. When you are thinking about wealth the whole day, see what relationship you are building with wealth. Analyze, again and again and again. What are the words you utter towards wealth? I have seen, many times, that you start enjoying poverty because of the self-sympathy it brings towards you.

Somehow from the very young age, you started believing that poverty means you are right. If you are in poverty, then you have not done anything wrong. You started believing that people with wealth do all the fraudulence, wrong things, tell lies, cheat others and accumulate wealth which is a completely wrong pattern. The have-nots have a deep hatred towards the haves. And the have-nots constantly spread rumors and stories about the haves.

Go to any middle-class Indian town. If there is a rich man in that town, there will be rumors floating about him that he printed currency! I tell you, go to any town of India, any town, whether it is Tamil Nadu, Andhra, U.P., Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, or any town! In any town, there will be two or three rich people. There will be rumors floating around the richest man of the town, especially if he is self-made in one generation, that he printed currency! In Tamil Nadu, there is a standard statement - All is Sivakasi rupee, Sivakasi currency is playing!

The have-nots have a deep hatred towards the haves and they spread rumours about them. Even if the richest man is your close friend and you know that he has not done anything illegal, you just want to enjoy the rumor to justify to yourself as to why you don't have wealth and why he has it. You do not want to accept the fact that he took the responsibility for life and that you did not take responsibility for life. Because I walked the length and breadth of India, I know the Indian psyche from its deep roots. I tell you, in Indian psyche, we carry a deep hatred for those who have. That is why media is always successful when it attacks the people who have, when they go behind the blood of the people who have.

They will neither take the responsibility to have, nor allow the people who have taken the responsibility, to have peacefully. This is what I call as poverty consciousness or the beggar mentality. India needs to wake up and come out of this mentality! All of India needs the practice of integrity!

Listen! We need integrity as a lesson in our schools. I will expand on this subject continuously in further satsangs.

I bless you all, to achieve, experience, live, express, radiate, share, explode and enrich with eternal bliss – 'Nithyananda'! Thank you!

The lower dimensions of you are nothing but rejected parts of your higher dimensions. When your higher dimension is not materialized, when it is not realized, your lower dimension is empowered!