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 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".