OUR MONEY & POSSESSIONS -- PART TWO

If you place your possessions above your God, above your responsibility to your fellow human beings, then your possessions are ruling you. You may worship God or Mammon, and that is what Mammon is, the idols of Humanity, and, truly, the idols of the present Age are money and possessions.

A Little Reminder

There is a story in the Bible about a rich man who asked the Nazarene "What do I have to do that I may inherit eternal life??". The Nazarene replied, "Obey the commandments, sell everything that you possess, give it to the poor and then follow me". But the rich man could not do this because he valued all his possessions above his spirituality, and he departed sadly. All of you should heed this story, for it is relevant no matter whether you possess a large or small amount of money.

There have been Ages in which no one possessed anything, but people today must have their possessions and, once they have paid money for them, they believe that these possessions belong to them and that no one else may use them.

Motive And Responsibility

Let us now examine your responsibility towards your money and possessions. Firstly, let us examine how you obtain your money. If you perform a fair day´s work and you are paid a fair wage by your employer, then that money having been fairly earned will have a spiritual as well as a material value. In the field of industrial relations today, where so much blackmail and pressure is used by both sides, although one side may think that they have gained, such gains are not true gains for any money, any conditions of service, gained though wrong motivation, against Natural Law, are worthless. You may think they are of value, but they are not. In the long term the Law of Karma will always equal it out. There are those who earn their money immorally; and by this I mean through exploiting one of the Kingdoms of Nature. Money gained in this way is of no spiritual value.

Law Of Nature

You should examine why you work. Do you work just to make money for yourself and your family, or do you work to help others?? Do you run a business for the good of your fellow human beings, or for the good of yourself?? It is most important that all of you in business firmly establish your motivations, for anything gained with the wrong motivation is worthless in spiritual values and will reap the effect of Natural Law (Law of Cause and Effect). It may not be an immediate effect, but in time it will come about, for as your sow, so shall you reap.

For those of you in society today who earn a great deal of money, who have power and influence, the responsibility is ten times as great as for those who earn very little. If you control a big factory employing many people then you stand a great chance of incurring karma if you do not treat them with responsibility.

A Painful Karma

If the great nations do not treat the small ones with responsibility, and if the rich countries do not share with the poor, then again karma is incurred. As you look around your World today you can see countries hoarding their natural sources, their minerals and their food, and not sharing them with other countries unless they receive payment for them. There are countries which produce food and destroy it to maintain an artificial price whilst people in other parts of the World are starving. This is incurring a painful karma in lives to come for both the countries and the individuals concerned, for it shows that they value their possessions more than their Creator. The Creator is in all people, in all races, and therefore if you do not value the Creator, Who created you, the Earth and everything on it above your own little possessions you still have a great deal to learn, and the learning will be painful.

Merely A Possession

You may say, "How can I change my attitude towards money?? I would like to live a life based on true values but I find it difficult in the society of today". Firstly, you must begin by recognising that money is merely a possession and that it does not matter if you gain, or if you lose, possessions. The important thing is how you gain them and how you lose them. Unless you are amongst the very poor, be satisfied with your presnet standard of living and strive not to improve it, for by striving to improve your standard of livng you are supporting the very system which you wish to change. If you continually want more possessions, then you are supporting the structure of society which you have already decided does not aid the spirituality of Humanity.

Your Attachment

Always remember that your possessions are not really yours. You may think that you own them but you only own them while you are incarnating: that is all. You cannot take your possessions with you beyond the grave, so why do you attach so much importance to them while you are living?? Do not therefore hold on to any possessions as if your life depended on them for they are not that important. Remember that you need money to provide a home, to buy food and to clothe yourself but, once you have done that, what else do you really need?? If you were a spiritually motivated person then after you had housed, clothed and fed yourself you would give all that was remaining to those who needed it more than you. Indeed, an evolved person, one who truly exemplified the Christ Principle, would give their money to the poor before they even considered themselves. If you all were to do this then you would be surprised at how your Creator would look after you.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fanstastic Teachings of Ramala"