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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Financial crisis - What they don't teach you in school
by Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti | 9.3 MB | Posted on November 1, 2008 | Recorded in Berlin/Germany on July 21, 2008 | Entry #093 |
Give up your preoccupation about your future, because if your present is a mess then your future will be more messy. But when you are aiding others then your present is glorious and your future will be glorious. Material philosophy means now save your money and tomorrow enjoy, save for your vacations, save for your home, save for your car, save save save and don't give, and in this way your life becomes pretty miserable. And nowadays the banks may also become bankrupt, we have already seen that a few times. All of a sudden there is devaluation of the currency and what was yesterday 10 is now worth only 5. This just happened in the United States, strongest country in the world, supposed to be. Everybody in the U.S. over the period of the last six months lost between 35 and 50 percent of their assets. No exaggeration. If they had a million dollars, now they have 500000 Usd or 650000 Usd. If they had debts they lost their houses. In the last 6 months 4 million homes in the U.S. went into foreclosure. The houses went down in value, what was worth 100000 Usd is now worth 50000 Usd, but they owe 80000 Usd to the bank. This means that now you have more debts than the house covers. Nice game of the money changers.
Aiding others - How emergencies help us to grow spiritually
by Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti | 15.9 MB | Posted on October 30, 2008 | Recorded in Berlin/Germany on July 21, 2008 | Entry #092 |
Krishna due to His kindness keeps us in a state of emergency. Why? Because we need that, we need that state of emergency, because we have not yet discovered loving spontaneous devotional service. Somehow or other Sri Krishna, He has the devotee-community grow, from one emergency to the next. I have at this given moment approximately between 100 and 200 emergencies. When the telephone rings it means another emergency. The emergencies put us in contact with Krishna. Supreme Queen Kunti said that let this emergencies come again and again and again because when there is an emergency she has to take refuge in Sri Krishna. In this way Krishna is sending these emergencies to us to be more close to Him. So Queen Kunti says that she wants these emergencies to come again and again, because if everything would be going fine and there would be no problem at all then we would just go to sleep, then we would just do some useless thing like turning on the television.
