A doll and a million "doll"ars -i say take the money!!

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OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

i say you take the million dollars. while i agree with the point

that money will not bring happiness. money and happiness are

mutually exclusive events. there is nothing wrong with it. money

is Shakti. just as energy is inherently absolute(niether positive

nor negative) so is money. there is no duality in either. only in

their application. the only thing right or wrong with money lies in

what it is used for. used selfishly it comes with much misery.

 

so i say to the Master don't be a fool take the money. just use it

positively.

 

JAI MA

 

, "Nanda" <chandimaakijai>

wrote:

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> Found on the web. My thanks to the unknown author.

> Jai Maa

> NAnda

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> "When you stop wanting things, then you will know happiness," the

> Master was known to say.

>

> Hearing this, several disciples took up asceticism and would deny

> themselves all sorts of worldly pleasures. When they told the

Master

> of their practices he laughed and told the following story:

>

> "Imagine someone brings you a gift, and that gift is a brand new

> doll, the nicest new doll available. While there was a time in

your

> life you would have wanted such a gift, that time has since past.

> You would look at the doll and say to your presenter, 'This is a

> very nice gift, but I am not in need of it, perhaps you know a

child

> who would enjoy it much more than I.'"

>

> "Now imagine that same person gives you another gift. But instead

of

> a doll the gift is a suitcase filled with one million dollars."

>

> The Master concluded, "Happiness comes when you feel the same way

> about the gift of a million dollars as you did about the doll."

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