OUR MONEY & POSSESSIONS -- PART THREE

Remember that the Law of Karma (Cause and Effect), will repay you much more than you would receive in currency, for as you help others, so you will be helped yourselves.


Cause and Effect

It is up to you to help your fellow human beings. If you live in a land of plenty, then help in the lands of scarcity. If your country has plenty of money, then it should give help to those countries that need it. If your country has plenty of natural resources, then it should share them with any country in the world that needs them. Examine your motivation in everything that you do with your money and possessions. Remember that some of the wiset, the happiest and the most spiritual people that have walked this Earth have possessed nothing.

The Nazarene was of a poor family, possessing nothing but the clothes he walked in, and was fed by those with whom he stayed; yet he exemplified the Christ Principle for the World. There is the example. You do not need money or possessions to be as the Christ. Indeed, it is best to be without them. Societies have existed where people lived together in a community, growing and making what they needed, without money. It could be done today.

All over the World New-Age souls are striving to do just this, to establish little communities which are not based on money and possessions. Until you have tried this, do not despise it. If you have had possessions all your life, is it not difficult to give them up?? In the end possessions possess you and, in that they possess you, they deny you your full spiritual birthright.

The Law of Karma

So to those of you who have money and possessions I say beware, for you could be creating great karma for yourselves. You must handle all your money and possessions with responsibility otherwise one day the Law of Karma (Cause and Effect) will decree an incarnation for you where you too may be one of the millions of people who live in poverty and die of hunger in a far-off country.

Changing Your Values

The structure of society today is such that the monetary system of the World is soon to collapse. The money on which you place so much faith and security will become worthless. The present situation, where the rich countries keep on getting richer and the poor countries poorer, cannot be allowed to continue. The value of money and possessions will change. How much better it will be if you have changed your values before that happens. If you can look at your bank account, if you can look around your house and truly say that you could give them up, if you had to, with no pain or remorse, then you have the right amount of money and possessions. But if you say that you could not do this, for you needed them you had to have them, then you have too much.

A Necessary Balance

I ask you all to examine the motive force on which you base your lives. Is it to be money, or is it to be spirituality?? That is not to say that the two cannot go hand in hand, but that the balance must be there. The balance of spirituality is that you do not possess or strive to possess more than your Creator intended for you. If you possess a great deal while other possess nothing, then obviously the balance in wrong. The fact that you have so many problems in your World today, between both races and individuals, can nearly always be traced to money and possessions. What you have, another wants. What you are striving to possess, another will try to prevent.

Our Only Possession

Remember that you are the children of God, that you are living on His Earth along with the matter of the Earth and that nothing whatsoever belongs to you. All that you possess is your consciousness. That is the only thing that you will take with you when you leave the physical body. How much better, therefore, to advance that consciousness.

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

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"

OUR MONEY & POSSESSIONS -- PART ONE

If you were to ask almost any adult in the Western World today about which factor in their lives they worried about the most, they would probably say MONEY ! Why is this?? It is because money is the motive power of society today. If the value of money was to disappear overnight, then the whole structure of western society would collapse.

A Material Society

On an international level, as the strength of a country´s currency rises or falls, so its status and position in the World varies also. A wealthy country has influence and power in an international conference, whereas a poor country does not. On an individual level, a wealthy person usually has more influence in society today than a poor person. Humanity has created a material society with its monetary system. Therefore it is difficult, even for those who do not wish to join in this system, to avoid it.

Sacred Trust

In the world of money there is, of course, usually very little room for spirituality, for the very act of possessing has in itself an unspiritual vibration. But what, in fact, can you really possess?? Nothing ever belongs to you. Every aspect of matter on this Earth, no matter whether it be a piece of land, a stretch of water, a plant or an animal, it is not yours to buy and sell. You might think that because you have paid money to buy something from another person you now possess it, but that person had no right to sell it to you, neither had you the right to buy it, for the matter of this Earth does not belong to you but to the Lord of this Earth. It is only lent to you in a sacred trust.

Truly, you possess nothing, for even when you think you possess something you possess it only until another person takes it away from you, or until it is destroyed, or until you leave your physical body at death to pass on to another level of life. The act of possessing can never be final. You should appreciate this and realise that all the energy and time which you spend on trying to possess material things are wasted because, although it might bring you temporary benefit, or so you think, your possessing can never be permanent.

Moreover, you should examine the responsibility of possessing because you must handle everything that comes into your possession, and for which you assume responsibility, correctly and according to Natural Law. If you do not, then you risk the chance of incurring karma both for yourself and for those around you with the Lord of this Earth and the Lords of Matter. Truly, a person who possesses very little may well lead a more fruitful life than a person who possesses a great deal.

Wrong Motivation

The whole structure of society today is based on money. People work to earn money. Most people would agree with me if I was to say that they would not work if they could earn or obtain money in another way. Therefore their very motivation for working is wrong, for they work not because they want to but because they have to: they need money. In society today you, of course, have to have money. No one could deny this, and because society is established in this way you have to earn money to live in society.

You have to buy your clothes and food, you have to buy or rent a home, and therefore you must earn money. I would just like to say at this point that although you might think that this is normal, and that money is an essential part of any civilised society, it has not always been so. In fact, in some ancient advanced civilisations, as yet undiscovered by Humanity, money was not used in any form. It is quite possible to live without money -- indeed, it is desirable to do so -- but today it is obvious that you cannot, and therfore you must concern yourselves with how to use the money that you have and to decide how much you really need.

Like a Drug

The way in which your society is structured at this time has caused money to become like a drug. Whether you earn one, two or even a hundred thousand pounds a year you always need, or rather you always think you need, more. A person who earns a thousand pounds will perhaps be happy with five thousand. A person who earn five thousand pounds will perhaps be happy with ten thousand, and so on in progression. Few people are ever satisfied with the money that they earn. Why is this?? Because, to them, money means possessions. With more money they can obtain more possessions, more things they can call their own: bigger and better houses, more expensive cars, more clothes than they need. They can go on more expensive holidays and buy more expensive decorations both for themselves and for their homes.

How often do you think about how much money you really need just to live on, and for nothing else?? If you had only just enough money to live on and did not have any extra to spend on possessions and therefore worrying about what you possessed, how would you spend all your free time?? Would you not, perhaps, begin to appreciate more your fellow human beings and Nature around you?? Would you not begin to think of spirituality, of God, of Creation, of the Earth on which you live?? A person who has many possessions finds it difficult to think on spiritual matters because their mind is totally absorbed with their money and possessions. Those that have money worry about losing it and investing it to produce more, and those that do not have money are constantly seeking to obtain it for the pleasures that they think it will bring them.

Real Poverty

Obviously these remarks are not directed at the relatively poor people in society who exist in real poverty and who need money not just to maintain but to improve their standard of living so that they can live at an acceptable level for humanity. The people who earn a great deal of money should be helping those who do not, those who really need money. Your governments, who have this responsibility, should be doing this automatically as a function of it. These comments then are directed at the people who earn a great deal of money, who have money to spare.

Part Two follows....

This article is from "The Fanstastic Teachings of Ramala".