Prosperity

Life often keeps us busy with survival or luxury pursuits that distract us from our true potential. Like a banyan tree hidden within a tiny seed, your potential is vast waiting to sprout when given space through silence. This silence allows us to reconnect with ourselves, experience joy without reason, and contribute authentically to the world’s evolution.

The Busy Lives of the Poor

For those living in poverty, life revolves around survival. Their days are consumed by earning bread, securing shelter, and meeting basic needs. Their minds are constantly focused on activities necessary for survival, leaving little room for reflection or exploration. Life demands their full attention, and the luxury of pausing to think about deeper aspects of existence is often out of reach.

The Rich and Their Pursuit of Luxury

The rich, on the other hand, are free from survival struggles but face a different kind of challenge. Their lives are often influenced by societal expectations and corporate marketing that promote luxury as the ultimate goal. Extravagant homes, designer cars, high-end jewelry, and lavish parties dominate their focus. While these pursuits may seem fulfilling, they often leave little room for introspection or connection with their inner selves. The constant engagement with indulgences keeps their minds occupied, much like survival does for the poor.

The Youth: A Manufactured Path

Youth—children and teenagers—begin life with fresh minds full of curiosity and potential. However, society quickly pushes them into a manufacturing line (rigid system): starting school as toddlers and emerging into adulthood by their mid-twenties. This system molds them to meet corporate expectations rather than encouraging self-expression or exploration. Academic pressures, extracurricular activities, and societal norms occupy their minds entirely, leaving little space for them to pause and discover their true selves.

Marriage and the Loss of Creativity

Couples who once used their creativity to impress each other often take each other for granted after marriage. Over time, many couples fall into routine patterns. Physical intimacy diminishes, initial attraction fades, and both partners become engrossed in practical tasks—raising children, managing households, or chasing societal definitions of success. Gradually, they lose touch with their emotions and creativity in being practical, transforming into robotic versions of themselves. This loss of humanness—the ability to express one's inner core—is a profound consequence of modern married life.

The Trap of Entertainment and Habits

Even during idle moments (there will be), society has defined activities to keep us engaged—movies, TV shows, social media, and entertainment. While these provide temporary relief, they often revolve around survival or luxury themes ensure we are tapped forever in this vicious circle. In some cases, idle time can lead to dangerous habits, such as excessive drinking or drug use, which can cause a loss of consciousness. This state is particularly concerning because, even when engaged in entertainment activities, we are still conscious to some extent, and there is always a possibility for us to come out of all that unnecessary and focus on our core.

These distractions prevent us from exploring our true potential and keep us trapped in cycles defined by societal norms.

The Power of Silence

Amid this constant engagement lies a simple yet transformative truth: when your mind is silent—free from societal definitions—you experience sense of joy and peace naturally with no specific efforts. This feeling is like soaring through the sky as a bird—light, free, and boundless. Need to find pockets of time in our busy day to be silent for sometime. In this state of silence, there is a feeling of something divine flows within—sparking a burst of creativity in whatever I do immediately after that silence.

The most noticeable aspect is the joy that arises for no apparent reason. Doing everything in that joy than our typical way of doing everything for joy gives immensely novel experience, which I cannot put into words.

A Glimpse into Spiritual Life

I had glimpses of this joy and never experienced that kind of joy through external influences since birth. This is what spiritual life truly is, though one might not consciously grasp the secret behind it - the presence of a divine core within all of us, manifesting itself through our bodies. To achieve this, all we need to do is to be silent, creating a space in our minds for the core to flow. That’s all it takes. You can do in office, home, sports, anywhere improving the quality of activities you perform there.

In this joy, one excels in all aspects of life, be it material or spiritual, even though excelling here and there is not his goal. He simply enjoys the expression. The perceived division between materialism and spirituality is a construct for the common or ignorant; in reality, life is undivided, requiring only your authentic expression. The current state of the world is a culmination of many genuine expressions from individuals tapping into their core, emphasizing the significance of our contribution. Without your core expressions, the universe loses something vital, hindering its evolution. You are so vital for the universe, irrespective of whether your expressions are as small as ant or as big as elephant just like a single bolt tying parts together is as important to Ferrari as the shining steering wheel in the car.

Privilege and Responsibility

The possibility of exploring oneself is more accessible to the rich than the poor. This is because the rich can utilize the services of the poor to free themselves from routine activities, allowing them to sit relaxed and focus on new pursuits. I understand that prosperity is a gift from a higher power (whether you perceive it as God or the Universe) for you to be free from routine and unveil the creativity hidden within you like the potential of a big banyan tree is hidden within a small seed.

Sensible person is very well aware of the fact that it is very divinity whose blessings billions seek reduced itself and appear like a poor to serve him. He gives that respect and dignity to them. It is not the salary he pays, but make sure their living is taken care. Keeping them happy is a way he expresses his gratitude to the divinity. He feels divinity in everything he has, be it property or people, and even within himself. He is contented with all this, becomes silent, creating a space in his mind allowing the divinity to flow and express itself through his body.

Appendix

#1

It is indeed unfortunate that the rich cannot recognize the blessings bestowed upon them by God through prosperity and various means, as discussed so far. Instead, they embark on pilgrimages to worship static representations of that deity. This static deity or an imaginary one in heaven watching millions of people suffering from hunger, dying, damaging nature in ignorance and causing immense suffering to other species. In the name of this deity, millions are conflicting and killing each other, including innocent children and infants. All this is clearly giving us a clue that our perception of God went wrong somewhere and it is the time to revise it.

Here is my revised version - divinity exists in a “live” form within us and everywhere. Explore, be open and find yours.