He who is contented is the richest man in the world and the one who has many desires is the poorest man?

Question

" If you earn the wealth of pure love, you become the richest person in the world. He who is contented is the richest man in the world and the one who has many desires is the poorest man in the world. Today, man is filled with desires from top to toe. As long as one has desires, one can never be happy and peaceful. Give up desires and see for yourself how much love and bliss you get. The bliss you experience will be far superior to all the happiness you have experienced before. All the bliss is within you. But you are imagining that it is outside. What is outside is only the reflection, reaction and resound of what is within you."

Source :- http://www.radiosai.org/pages/thought.asp

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Answer 1

That's deep, man.
I agree absolutely. There is too much emphasis on material & monetary wealth, status, etc, it's insane but that's the world we live in.
It's hard to be content because that's just how we are ~ genetic flaw perhaps? We're never satisfied, thinking that the grass is greener on the other side.
Desire I think in this context would be ambition, dreams, goals they're the driving force for all of us to step up in life.
But I guess to live moderately, humbly is what this statement means to be selfless & give back to society/ community to enrich your life further.

Answer 2

jk's take is that for a Kshathriya, the major theme that is running for life probably is Life is a Game, just play it. a game of analysing the various probabilities and possibilities and then just try some of the techniques in the game, some works and some fizzes off. Probably Contenment is there only when one transends all those four ways of life, remember the so called "Veera Vaani" of Gita ... starting with "Thraigunya Vishaya Veda..." jk's opinion however high Bhishma Pithamah flew in the worldly life of thrigunas, the full richness, he might have achieved (i don't know whether he achieved) only with contentment and love for all transcending above the gunas and the four castes... otherwise we are all here with certain themes. its the "Survival of All" theory that Gita talks at the subtle, not the survival of fittest ... At the end everybody shall be back with Divinity, may be with so many births and deaths, for all those interests and affinities to slowly die down, some reach faster and few others reach later ... if the time is considered a worthwhile dimension ... even that dimension is associated with this world and probably not an absolute reality ... think of phenomenon of so many years passing by in just a few minutes in a dream state of existence .. anyway Divinity or Divine beings from time to time come to the earth to prove these things ... otherwise we all might have just discarded these things just as a very beautiful artistic philosophical work without any basis ... since examples and experiences are there we tend to believe ....

luv and SAI RAM,
jk
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Answer 3

The simplest of things are most often the most difficult to attain. For in this day and age we have become so accustomed to only accepting the tangible that we have forgotten to seek and to feel that which is implied, or simply maintained in one's heart. Happiness is a by-product of fulfillment, fulfillment is the result of earnest acquisition, earnest acquisition is the reward for determination, and determination is the universally accepted cure for dissatisfaction. If all things come to be appreciated for their undeniable existence we have taken the joys from life itself and robbed ourselves of all our dreams and aspirations. We are then nothing more than the hollow shells of humanity the remnants of a once great race of individuals and the ruination of all potential and all things admirable. We are the pawns of our own creations, and we shall never be contented with our existence, we will not strive we will stress, we will not live we will exist, we shall only aspire to acquire and we will be none the more happy with our state because we will always improve that which have not that which we have become. The acquisition of material goods is only a fixture of a warped and confused society and we are nothing more than animals that cannot decipher need from desire. All the things that separated us from the wild beasts are lost. Even the bear knows that it must conserve itself and control it’s hunger or it will not survive. Can we say the same for ourselves as humans? Have we learned the value and virtue of self-constraint and regulation? It would not appear so. What have we become, and how will we face ourselves when there is nothing left to create but the bonds to our brethren we abandoned so long ago?

Answer 4

How would you rate Deva Vrata aka Bhishma Pitamaha? The mightiest man was full of desires from the start to end. But a contemplator and an acheiver at the end. Krishna did it for him. It also depends upon what body you have been provided with. He was born into a Kshatriya family, supposed to desire, or else cannot rule. And rule he did and good at that too.He was not only a master in Niti, nyaya, Jyotisha but also of yoga.... Your comments.

Answer 5

This is not a question. this is a statement with a question mark.

Whatever will be will be. Que Sara Sara.

Answer 6

Ahhh... Very good. Buddhist?

Answer 7

Awesome!

;-)

Answer 8

BRAVO !