AUMISM
Towards a Better World
Reflections to shed light on the questions of our time.
REFLECTIONS
Towards a Better World #76
1 March 2025
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Our relationship with money
In today’s society, it is useful and legitimate to “have enough to clothe and feed oneself, enough to raise and educate one’s children and ensure them a better future”. (Vers un Age d’Or d’Unité, p. 143)
But Lord HAMSAH MANARAH points out in Le Yoga de la Vie pratique, p. 243: “Evil appears when the appetite for money for its own sake makes one forget all spiritual values.” Human beings who have become slaves of the “money god” seek to satisfy their greed for material goods and their desire for power by any means, even the most unworthy. [1]
The antidotes to this slavery?
– Detachment: wealth can go hand in hand with wisdom for those who know how to “consider themselves the temporary manager of the goods acquired”. (Le Yoga de la Vie pratique, p. 236)
– Solidarity: helping those in need without discrimination avoids the trap of predatory selfishness. [2]
Without forgetting that kindness and greatness of soul are the “true riches, independent of any fortune”. [3]
[1] See post no. 29, “Leaving selfishness behind”.
[2] See post no. 26, “Towards solidarity”.
[3] See post no. 64, “Being happy today”.
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