[Sri Ramakrishna] Digest Number 995

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Dear Members,

I haven't understood what Mr.Ananta want to mention. It that America?(the

rich country) Then i disagree with him. Because misery is common to

everybody and it manifests according to their own custom. I find misery in

both countries India and in America it its own way. God alone can get rid of

the misery and not the amount of the wealth. Also when you compare the

amount of expenditure a rich man spends in India will feed many children in

somalia or any poor african nation. The subject is relative. In America,

life demands its own way of living standard according to their culture. Here

they don't accumalate wealth, while in India there is a tendency of

accumulating wealth thru land and gold. In america, they live for present

while we live for future. As a result we are always in the past. As a result

they(americans) are moving towards future. God alone is the past, present

and the future and he is the real.

 

 

Sivaramakrishnan

 

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" sivaramakrishnan muthuswamy " <m_sivaramakrishnan

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Wednesday, December 19, 2001 02:28

Re: [sri Ramakrishna] Digest Number 995

 

 

> Dear Members,

> I haven't understood what Mr.Ananta want to mention. It that America?(the

> rich country) Then i disagree with him. Because misery is common to

> everybody and it manifests according to their own custom. I find misery in

> both countries India and in America it its own way. God alone can get rid

of

> the misery and not the amount of the wealth. Also when you compare the

> amount of expenditure a rich man spends in India will feed many children

in

> somalia or any poor african nation. The subject is relative. In America,

> life demands its own way of living standard according to their culture.

Here

> they don't accumalate wealth, while in India there is a tendency of

> accumulating wealth thru land and gold. In america, they live for present

> while we live for future. As a result we are always in the past. As a

result

> they(americans) are moving towards future. God alone is the past, present

> and the future and he is the real.

>

>

> Sivaramakrishnan

 

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Dear Sivaramakrishnan

 

" Ananta " is just posting the material from the talks by Swami

Vivekananda given in USA about 100 years ago.

 

All talks by any spiritual personality (however grand) have to be

read in context. If you would have seen the earlier postings from the

same talk - we see Swami Vivekananda developing the idea that

pleasure and pain are relative concepts. He thus mentions that

if we live in an affluent society that does not necessarily

produce greater net pleasure - we are then susceptible to greater

pain by the pressures imposed on us.

 

jay

Vivekananda Centre London