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Bhaavin Shah
SIMPLE LIVING & HIGH THINKING
One of the biggest challenge facing us and the future generations is that of global warming & limitless plundering of natural resources by mankind. All this is due to excessive consumption on part of all of us.
In a recent Kaya Kalp retreat at Katarkhadak, Guruji Rishi Prabhakar praised the virtue of a simple life. He even attributed the economic recession in the world to the excessive greed of the people of USA. I chose to investigate into this aspect of excessive consumption.
Can you self-control?
In our basic SSY class, we have all seen the importance and usefulness of operating from ‘acceptance’. I could always see ‘acceptance’ work miracles in my life but could never fully establish the principles of nature which made it work.
SSY, as discovered by Pujya Guruji, is a science along the lines of Adwaita-Vedanta as propagated by Shankaracharya and Maharshi Raman. Along the lines of the same Adwaita philosophy, here is the reason as to why acceptance works :
If only I had a rich father…
What attracts abundance? Life has a simple rule. Like attracts like. Abundance attracts abundance. What does that mean? Can this law also have tragic implications? Yes, Here is one. I can’t be materially abundant until I am materially abundant to begin with.
Assuming I don’t have enough money, it makes a vicious circle for me; it’s a trap, an unjust one. It’s like saying that money builds on money. That’s what our fore fathers told us too. But well where do I get the first chunk of money to begin with? Who will gift me the first chunk, the seed money? If only I had a rich father…