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Money Vs Happiness Index
Happiness Index
Today where we all are looking for happiness?. We were looking for it in external factors. Today we need to understand a very important law that external factors or an external force are one power. And another force is our inner power. One is that we need to earn outside. Yes? Very important. Another is to earn internally. When we earn externally, we can buy external things. When we earn internally, we can buy internal things. But if we think that we will earn outside and with that, we will get internal things, that will not happen. What is outside is material (matter). What is inside is energy. If we want to buy material objects, we need to earn money. If we want energy then we need to earn energy. You cannot use material things, to earn energy.
Likewise, you cannot use energy to buy material things. But if you donate money that matters, then you can earn blessings which is energy. Is it not?. Because what did you do by donating? If you made a donation if you served someone if you helped someone or cooperated the other person created energy when they created that energy, you received that energy. As soon as you received that energy your inner power increased. Because you earned blessings.
But the other way around is what we don't understand. It's actually the same equation, isn't it? Suppose you the soul have this much happiness. You take this (soul battery charged to this extent) and go to the market. You said you want a vehicle but you did not get one. So you thought with just this much happiness you cannot buy a vehicle. You need to increase your happiness. So you start filling this battery more and more. You thought the fuller it is, You can buy a vehicle with it. You couldn't buy it. You can spend a lifetime trying. Not just one lifetime but even multiple lifetimes. That is because this energy cannot be that object at all. In this case even a simple or ordinary person can tell you that happiness cannot buy anything from the market. Yes, we cannot buy happiness.
Who can buy things from the market? Money. And if you are not aware of this then what is the title people can give? People will say that the person is mad. Why? Why it is such simple, common sense. That's why you said people will call the person mad. How could you take happiness to buy a vehicle out of it? If you want to buy a vehicle you need to make money with you. What I will do for the journey of your life you will keep on continuously increasing your happiness because you want that vehicle. Actually buying that vehicle was not very difficult. It was very easy and you needed only a little money. But you had not set the formula right. You had thought happiness can buy you the vehicle. So you worked extremely hard and made this battery full. Yet you did not get the vehicle. Because of your one, wrong, lack of basic awareness. And then you will say what is the use of happiness? It is useless. Now the other way around. Just like happiness cannot buy a vehicle Likewise a vehicle cannot give us happiness. It is a little difficult to think this way and understand it. Why is it difficult? It is actually simple.
Does money buy happiness?
Happiness is energy here. A vehicle is a material object which can only be bought with the material - money. You just need a little money for it. You don't need so much happiness for it. The basic thinking is that when you have more money the person is happier. If it is basic thinking then you can also have basic thinking that If you are happy then your happiness should give you everything that you want. If you are going to do it the other way around you are going to do it this way around. If you can say that things will give you happiness, You are saying that happiness can buy you things. Both are wrong. It can't be that one is wrong and the other is right. Why? Because one is matter and the other is energy. Both of them are easy to earn. Earning both of them is really easy. It's not difficult. But where was the small problem coming from? We tried to earn one from the other. Both were to be earned in their own different ways, isn't it? The matter had to be bought using matter which is money. Simple - work hard, earn money, buy material comforts. Happiness was easy. Create the energy, radiate the energy, earn the energy. Both of them were simple. But instead of keeping them in their separate paths, you connect them thinking that one can buy the other. Then how long can we spend waiting to buy them? Not just one lifetime but multiple lifetimes. This was the only reason.
Today you buy one mobile phone and then say, not this but you need the next bigger version Now that has more features. It is a constant desire to upgrade. You are not buying gadgets or technology vehicles, the property you are not buying them to use them for their purpose. you are buying them for happiness. If a husband gifts a piece of diamond to his wife. And the next year by the bigger... And a bigger one the subsequent year... Will the wife was not happy? Why will she be happy? Diamond is not giving happiness.
How much money do you need to be happy according to experts?
Is money equal to happiness?
Let us subtly check what is giving happiness. That you have a piece of diamond. your husband has gifted it to you. You believe you will get happiness only when you get the chance to show it off to the world that you have got this. And when people will see that you have achieved this, the whole energy that you create will show to everyone that your husband has gifted it. You are using the Diamond to create the energy of happiness. Happiness can be got only through energy. If you just consider that diamond - you have it in your hand. It cannot give you happiness, isn't it? Many people will be happy. Matter cannot give you happiness which is energy isn't it? You can say, you can use this matter to create energy. You must have seen people being happy about the Diamond kept in the locker. They will create energy, by using the Diamond? Energy means they create thoughts using that diamond. Otherwise, that matter cannot give you happiness. You use it as a stimulus, you create energy. you created thoughts using the Diamond as a stimulus. What thoughts did you create? Your thoughts will be - Whatever you wanted for so long, You have finally got it now. You created the energy that - you now have what other people had. Now when you go out with your friends, You will also be equal to them or better than them. Till which day? Till somebody buys a bigger diamond.
After a few days, your energy will change. Just like how we had 2G and 3G. Today we have 4G. Let's take one example your son/ daughter tells you - Daddy, why don't you upgrade to 4G? You will tell them what is the harm in using what is available at home readily?. You are looking at its functionality and using it. Not everybody looks at the functionality. They look for what is the latest. Because if you don't have the latest what will people say about you? It is fine to buy the latest and use it. But if you use it for status symbols instead of using it for functionality. If you use it as your stimulus for happiness, then your happiness will keep fluctuating throughout the day. Since our happiness has become dependent on objects and appreciation from people. It will keep varying - right now it is there and the next moment it will crash.
Once again will have to buy something to feel happy and after some time it will be down again. So throughout the day how will the happiness graph be? Fluctuating. Dependent and what? Dependent on what is thought you create here. Today you just understand one thing your happiness is dependent on the creation of your energy Whenever you create a nice thought you will feel happy - this is the formula. Even if you got a diamond you created a nice thought, isn't it? That nice thought was - you got what you wanted. Another nice thought was - My husband loves me so much, so he got it for me. So you created a nice thought. If somebody brings that same diamond in front of you and, if you are not able to create a nice thought looking at the Diamond then that diamond will not be the reason for your happiness at all. Using the Diamond you need to create a nice thought. Until then you will not experience happiness. You are clear about one thing today whenever and for however long you create nice thoughts, you will become happy. Is it not simple?
What is the happiest income?
If you take the same example - You go to the party wearing the same piece of a diamond but, even if somebody comments negatively about it or if somebody wore something better than what you wore then if the soul does not create our nice thought, which means it creates Sad or jealous thought. So there is no happiness. It is the same diamond. What is happiness dependent on? On you creating a nice thought. So finally whatever is the quality of thoughts you are creating that creates your happiness or the opposite emotion. It means the quality of your thinking Is the quality of your energy. As long as you are creating nice thoughts what is the quality of your energy? But thoughts are also dependent. Dependent on? Whether I have a 2 carat Diamond or a 10-carat diamond who is creating the thought? yourself. So you will not say it is dependent on the object. You took the object and used it to create that thought. You can say so, no problem. But it is not dependent on the object.
Let's take another example, you have this iPad. Suppose you are feeling very good about having this iPad. Now use this iPad to create a thought. This is so good and a lot of your work gets done using this. If someone tells you - This is a very outdated model of iPad that you have. How come you are still using it? Who uses this in today's times? This model is at least 5 years old. These are commodities that change or get upgraded every 6 months. Now, it is the same iPad as you. Do you have a choice to create two kinds of thoughts? Personally, it doesn't make a difference to you. No. Underline this - It does not make a difference to you. It really doesn't make a difference. You can use it for the next 10 years. Your son has gifted you. Then your line becomes invalid that is dependent on the carat of the Diamond.
I am talking about the woman who wore it. It doesn't depend on the carat of the Diamond. It depends on the woman. But there are two different people. No. You just need this iPad to check emails and read things. It is just your thought. It is not necessary that others feel the same way in the same situation. Yes, it is your perspective. Then we need to change the line to say that - Your thoughts are not dependent on the iPad. Not just for you but for anyone for that matter. About the same iPad, two people will create two different thoughts. You said it doesn't make a difference that it is five years old. It is serving your purpose. That's fine. This is one thought which means this is one option. Because of this thought, how will your state of mind be? Happy. Because you created the right thought for yourself. You did not create a thought - I am lacking. There are two different types of people, isn't it? But we also need realization isn't it, that your thoughts are not dependent on the outside.
Happiness and life satisfaction
Two different types of people you heard two friends conversing The first one said - I did good business during Diwali. I earned 1 Lakh. I am happy. Thanks to God. The second one said - this time I went into a huge loss. He said he had expected to make profits of 2 crores. But he made only 1.75 crores. This means even after gaining profit he said he went under loss. Why? He made a profit outside. Both of them made profits. The first man looked at his profits and created a nice thought. Whereas the second one looked at his profits and created a dissatisfied thought. The first man created a thought - I made such good profits this year. This is very important. Even if the amount externally was the same. The external achievement was the same. Taking that stimulus, what was the quality of thoughts inside them? One of them thought - I did very well. The year was so good. That soul will be happy. The second man looked at the same amount and said - I did not do as much as I wanted to. Other people did better than me. The amount was the same. Even if you earned more than the other person, it's no good because you haven't succeeded this year. This is a personal failure for me. Achievement is the same, the amount is the same. But their thoughts are different. It means the quality of energy is different. The energy we create is the energy we earn. It's very important.
Outside, what you earn is based on how hard you work. Internally what you create here is what you earn. So throughout the day, we are earning two things One is - you are working hard outside and earning. The other is - Whatever you create here, is what you are earning... Right now in the example we discussed, the thought you created is based on the profit amount you created and it was your thought looking at the profit. It is not sufficient. What had you planned? How much have I got? I should have earned more. This is the quality of your creation. It is your inner production. Just like a factory outside has a production This was your production inside at that time. The moment you created a product of this quality inside what is the quality of your energy at that moment? That this is not sufficient, you are lacking, dissatisfied, and unhappy. Outside you paid attention and you earned. Inside you didn't pay attention and you faced a loss.
When there was a loss here what about the money you earned? What was the use of all the money then? Because it was never dependent on the money, isn't it? The day we break the connection between these two Life will become very simple. You will get a question in your mind what is the use of all that money. It has its merits. Because the 1.75 crores can still buy a lot of physical Comforts as per their efforts, they earned money. Maybe they earned much more. Maybe they wanted to earn 3-fold but managed only 2-fold. Again we have to understand that there was no connection between his thoughts and his earnings outside. There is no connection between our thoughts and our money or achievements. Now you can understand better that between material and thinking It is better to not keep a connection. It is better to not keep them dependent on each other. No. It is not right to say - It is better to keep them separate. The truth is there is no connection at all. If there is no connection.
let's take an example. If anybody’s father died, if his/her business suffered losses, if his/her plane crashed would his thought not be connected with the event that happened? In the same situation, 5 different people can create 5 different kinds of thoughts. They can create. It is about different people. If we tell different people that somebody's remarks about your iPad model will not make a difference to you. It applies to any situation, no matter what situation you consider. Whether you consider the smallest of small situations. Or you consider the biggest crisis in this world In any situation, different people will create different kinds of thoughts. So there is no situation where we can say that because of this situation, I felt this way. The situation was there. But you felt a certain way. The minute we do that we become very powerful. It is not possible.
Measuring happiness increases happiness
Can you be happy without money?
Let's take any situation and examine it. As I mentioned above the iPad is actually a very insignificant situation in life. Today for many people in the world has become a cause for sadness. That I don't have this, I don't have that. People are unhappy at their own levels. Somebody is upset that they don't have a cycle. Somebody else is upset that they are not able to go on a cruise this year. Somebody else will want ownership. So it's not the size of the situation, but the thought we create. If someone says - I don't have money to go on a cruise The other person might look at him and say - You have everything and you are unhappy that you don't have enough money to go on a holiday? But that is a cause for that person's unhappiness. Because he took that as a stimulus and created a thought of that quality. It is not because of the holiday. How to change the quality of thought? The first step is to understand that there is no connection between the two. If there is no connection, why do you get angry if someone scolds you? If they humiliate you or if they slap you? There is a connection, isn't it? Where is the connection? Just like how different people create different thoughts about this iPad Likewise even in relationships, different people will create different thoughts.
In every scene, different people will create different thoughts. And your thoughts are dependent on your Sanskars. Today if you break this connection concerning happiness, it is Liberation for you. You feel it is difficult. You mentioned the document about the iPad did not make a difference to you. That is a small matter. It is not small. If you park your new car outside and a boy throws a stone at it. Can you say - Very good, I feel nice to see this? Are you able to create a very good thought? Won't you slap that boy? We have a choice. Not everyone will slap. Okay. Someone may get scared of that boy seeing that he is very strong. So there is a choice, isn't it? If he gets scared then he has no choice. As I said one person will get scared of that boy. Another person will get out of the car and fight with the boy. The third person will go to the police to complain about the boy. Someone will bring his family members to fight with the boy. Okay. What else? Somebody will take revenge and somebody will not. There can be positive choices too. Somebody can say that a boy must be insane to do such acts. As there are more choices. As I already mentioned 7 choices. 7 choices although the situation was the same.
But the choice you created in that situation You will feel that the choice you created was because of the situation. Today we need to break this connection. That they were not connected to each other at all. The boy throwing a stone at your car and you going out and slapping him There was no connection between these two. Maybe he wanted to hit somewhere else and ended up that way. Whatever the reason, there was no connection. Now there are more options. It is possible that he hit the car by mistake. This means there are so many options in so many choices for us. But the important is to Remember that how rich or poor you are depends on what you create here. It is independent of what you create here. How rich you are That is why it is said that - it doesn't matter how much money someone has, they must be large-hearted. Doesn't matter how big the house is, the people living there must be large-hearted. Today people have such big houses but still, they say - there needs to be more space for me to accommodate more people in it.
Someone else has a very small house but their thoughts are generous. They accommodate even 10 people at home. Because there is no connection between the size of the house and the quality of the thought. They are not connected. Today we have an extra floor at our home. Even when we did not have an extra floor, we were 10 people at home. We were delighted even then. Today when some people have moved out, there have been deaths, and now we have an extra floor. Still, people at home complain that space is not sufficient. Because it is not dependent on the house. Suppose there were two floors and 10 people residing earlier The thoughts of those 10 people were - there is so much space and we are all together. It is such a beautiful feeling. When that was the thought, the house was being appreciated by everyone.
Today let's do homework throughout the day. You need to earn happiness. You need to create happiness. This is your situation. This is the size of your home. This is your salary. This is your situation. In this situation, you need to create happiness. What thought should you create? Do it. Feel happy. If there is a feeling of lack or of sadness Immediately you can change your thoughts and earn happiness again. Just you have to tell the mind to stop and change. I am going towards loss. I need to go towards profit. I can't afford to lose.
