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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
JULY 2015
THE SEEKER'S DIARY
'Don't show me the Money!"
In the movie Jerry Maguire, a sports agent who is bases of so many court cases, scams, scandals, trying to convince his sports star client that he is good, petitions-the list is endless. is told by the star, "Show me the money!"
Observing people and their either extra adoration of One can interpret this dialogue in so many ways. It money or their lack of visible interest all ultimately just can mean "I need the money I don't want to know show or hide a layer of this insidious vast world of anything else." Or it could mean "The only criterion | money. One thing seems to be definite: money has can judge you by is the money you can bring, cut out immeasurable and sometimes near complete power all the other talk." And so on.
over all of us. Whichever way we look at it, our money association is While I seek these answers, I am just going to share here to stay.Our relationship with money-making it with you a few life situations and we can try and keeping it, spending it, giving it is such a great give understand or atleast attempt to interpret what kind of away ...of character... of the inner mechanisms.. situation, especially in India we all tend to encounter. My relationship with money has always been slightly Anant Bhai, a very learned and illustrious man, part of messy because I always learnt to want money but rarely committees and heads some of them too, lost a huge "need it. It always gave instant gratification but rarely chunk of his wealth in a legal battle. a sense of long lasting joy/ happiness. It always seemed He had borrowed money from someone who was to be lacking but even when one seems to have lots of merely investing and very much poorer) during his it, it rarely made one feel a sense of abundance. It difficult days but now is unable to pay him back. The seemed like a fickle commodity because it is people interesting twist of this common scenario is that he truly and thus moods dependant)-and-product( perishable) believes that his intention is unquestionable and so it dependant.
is ok not to be able to pay and in fact makes the man When I am in the vicinity of the liftman I can feel reminding him feel guilty and actually believes that his "Compared to him I have so much" but when I am near intention of paying should be taken into account and a person who is wealthier, my thought could be "I have nothing else. so little!"
Tarun Garg is one of the biggest philantrophists and Everything seems to depend on how you use your much looked upon in his social circle. He spontaneously money. Like water, in itself it seems to have no colour gives money for communities, temples, even when or shape. When you are charitable with it, you can call people approach him for a favour, or even a person yourself compassionate but when you demand more looking needy but he will never increase his employees pocket money from your parents they can turn around salaries. He is one of those people who can give a and tell you "Don't be greedy!" Or when a neighbour huge amount in an act of grandiose but is unable to sees you bargaining with a vegetable vendor, she/he be pragmatic in day to day vyavhaar. He is able to might think "God, how petty this person is, haggling give things but not hard cash/ money to his bahus and with a sabziwala so much". A person's "generosity" or wife, while doing larger acts of charity. "meanness" is often and increasingly these days Raj and his wife Jasmine are this cuddly cute couple. measured only in terms of how much she/he is willing However Jasmine feels too small to ask for money from to give (or not give) of money.
him. This means how much money you spend could He gives her the money each month for the house determine how many friends you have , compliments expenses and she treats it so scarily because she has and popularity. It can bring you so much and there is to maintain the image that Raj loves and has portrayed the belief that you could go to heaven if you give away of her that she is simple and can live within any means. enough of it. And on the other hand, it can isolate, cause she mentions the expenses she made each day to friction, create bloodshed and make your life a living Raj and always is seeking his acknowledgement that hell.
she has spent wisely. She has all the best material Have you seen how those who want someone to open things but always as a 'I really did not want this, but his wallet behave? They act coy or cleverly manipulate my husband wants the best for me. to draw the money out - be it a spouse or a boss or a Then there is Rajni ben; who is the wife of a successful person known to be a philanthropist. Money forms the business man and there is no dearth of wealth at home
