Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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1. Spend Less Moeny

 

Point number three in the Art of Living in this world is to spend

less money for yourself. Do more charity and good deeds, care for the

elderly, care of the poor. Serve others, but make do with simple

clothes, food, place to live for your self.

 

Brothers and sisters, for each and every one of you, this is a very

useful point. He who becomes extravagant in his spending, becomes

dependent on others. Reducing your spending is entirely up to you,

but earning more is not. Nowadays, people are spending more, and for

earning more they are depending on lying and cheating, abusing trust,

being dishonest and more. By doing all of these things how much more

is one able to earn? Earning more is not up to us, and that which is

entirely in our control, that we are not doing. We continue to be

unhappy our entire life.

 

Understand this my brothers, that one can make do with little for

their own essential needs. Whether you eat a seven course meal, or

you eat roti (bread) and daal (lentils), your body's needs are met.

If the body is sick, then take the medicine. If you are doing

something for the maintenance of the body, it is OK, but when you do

it for taste or from the perspective of pleasure in shopping, then it

is not OK. It is a big mistake. To be saved from this trap, to be

able to live an independent life, spend less money.

 

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2. Let Us Recognize Our Real Work

 

All the work we do in this life, including maintenance of family and

house, is work related to the body, mind, senses etc. It is not our

work. Our work is only to worship God and to realize the Essential

Truth (God). We have only one essential need and that is God. In

other words, the desire for God Realization is the only innate,

inborn desire that we have. Worldly work is foreign work for us.

 

From inquiry and studies, it has become clear that the embodied soul

has an eternal, innate relationship, with only God. But it is due to

ignorance, that by considering the world and worldly work as our

work, that while doing this work we forget God. If this embodied

soul, accepts with a firm resolve, his eternal, ancient, and true

relationship with only God, and accepts that only God is his very own

and believes that any work other than work related to God Realization

is not our work, then he can never be able to forget God. It is due

to desiring the world and associating with it, that one makes

mistakes in the path to God Realization. Therefore we must recognize

our inborn and innate relationship with God and our real work.