Avaricious? Enjoy a cyclic journey in pleasure and pain

This is a loose topic....I am going to put this in a new Label called.......Assorted Basket....

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There cannot be a better time to write this topic.....Global recession I mean......All of us want money..more money......and still more.... but non of us (Including you and me) understand what money is........In days of yore man exchanged his goods for his needs among fellow beings....This is called barter system....Remembering your history classes again..But there came a problem...Let us take an Example....

There are Three People Mr. Farmer, Mr. Fisherman and Mr. Builder.... (May be I took the theme form AOE....was an addict!)...One interesting thing here is, Mr.Z is a Vegetarian...So  Mr. Farmer can trade his grains and veges with the Fisherman, for his Fish....and he can do the same with the Builder for his work...but the problem is.....If the fisherman wants the Builder to work for him....he cant get him...Why? because The Builder don't need fish as he is a vegetarian.....So to overcome this problem..The unknown father of Economics invented money.....It is like a general commodity a token.....Its value is not what that is printed or embossed in it...but our own work....if you are the fisherman... your toiling in waves...you risking your life in a Storm...that is its value...Who determine the value of your commodity...its you  you...But you cannot overprice yourselves as others may not wish to buy your product.... So this went fine for the

olden days.....now let us come back to the present....

There are many complications in economics today...I am not an economist and will not mess up with that....But I will tell what I need to... The commodities and services available today are humongous....and then there is monopoly....It is like, if you are the only one in the planet producing a like saving drug....Everyone will be forced to get it from you..And you can fix any price and everyone is bound to pay you...Yes there are other stuff in this hypothetical consideration..like the government which will play its role....But I am putting this for you to understand an actual scenario....You can put the price you want...But you should ask, is that worth the price....We should have this responsibility...Why? Not because of a sacred law that has no explanation......Anything that has no reason is the product of ignorance and how can you consider that Sacred...Now for a little distraction from the main topic.....

When religious systems created the sacred laws they had in mind the logic behind it...But as people can't understand it...yes many of us are dumb...or many don't wish to understand reality..because it sucks....Men started following these laws...and The men who made religion were no dumb..(Human evolution is pretty slow..So just consider your ancestors having the same potential as you do.) So They didn't want their logic to be forgotten...So they created the roles of religious heads...They will be the sacred guardians of these principles.....But there was a problem in this and the Religious masters knew them.....It is what I call attrition of knowledge...This is Knowledge that is not transferred from the teacher to a student because of various factors........These Masters may also have made some mistakes.

(I will write a separate blog for this..as it is yet another problem)

So over time we started following things blindly.....Then owing to our ignorance..we and the religious guardians started mutilating the laws for the sake our convenience... It is like initially there was 2+3=5. Then we blindly thought 2+1=5. Then some gained a little sanity and saw 2+1=5 and said it is wrong...yes it is wrong....But the problem is..they are so overwhelmed with their discovery and did not look the above regression. Then there are the few glitches of religious masters or their initial disciples.......Thanks to all of the above, The men of partial sanity think that they have made victory.....But I am asking them..What did you really get? Yes you men are blessed with intelligence....You are better than the ignorant ones (Fools will be your language) who blindly follow the equation 2+1=5....I don't generally wish to quote as people blindly hate others...just without reason...but here the quote Will be beautiful..

I quote and paraphrase Swami Vivekananda "One rational non believer is better than a million irrational believers"...Hold on..Don't just smile.... there is more.... "But no amount of rational non believers can equate the value of one rational believer" So why don't you try and find a better explanation for existence..who knows you could disprove the men of yore...But there is no value if you just sit and mock others and gain cynical pleasure out of that...you are no better than them as you don't do anything to distinguish yourselves...If you get 100% in exam and look down upon who got a  20% it is OK...but you are not writing the exam and still mock the one getting the 20%..It seems he is a better person..he at least wrote the exam and got what he could get.....

Wow.....that was a little toooo..much for a distraction....So coming to our problem in economics....We actually see such a scenario in this world...everyone wants money for which they don't want their effort....Companies sucking the life force out of employees for peanuts..and employees asking salaries that they don't deserve......Politicians trying to loot public money and Citizens trying to cheat government laws and gain more money..YES...you can gain pleasure out of the money you got by selling ethical values or by selling  your fundamental needs..like sleep, food, rest ....But surely you have to experience pain....May be you are a lucky soul escaping this scenario..There may be some reason behind that...But what I am saying fits to many...Why pain? again no Sacred law!.......When you change a few terms in an equation....others will change so that there is balance.....here whatever is the result of a logical flow is what I call Balance....I will explain....Take the employer who is sucking your worth.....The money he gained out of that had some of his effort..so for that he will experience happiness...for others he will experience pleasure or he wont....1) If he experiences physical pleasure..he has exerted little physical effort so his body will be stuffed with more than what it wants...and so the system out of balance will result in physical deformation of some kind for which he will suffer...this can be extended to other forms of pleasure...(people u can think....Just think..and understand all possibilities....i will not explain everything...I ask you to supplement knowledge attrition by your own effort....) 2) If he is not indulging in pleasure he will start feeling a Void..a Hollowness in life...

So understand your needs...rationalise them....understand your potential....maximise them and workout a plan for life surely you will experience Happiness out of it....Yes you may not be very ideal..who is...well again I hate to put this here...people just cant take some things..but to those who take...and only to those...Everything that has a name or a form has a character and is not ideal....it will change is what i mean....so just understand your shortcomings..and change for the better......

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And know this.......Tatvamasi....

A.H

Aham brahmasmi