By Sadhguru
Jaggi Vasudev Economic Times
Once, it happened that a newly married woman went back to
her mother’s place and said, “My husband is such a wonderful man. He gives me
whatever I ask for.”
The worldly-wise mother looked at her and said,
“Obviously, you are not asking for enough.”
A human being should seek nothing less than everything.
Greed is the rule. When he seeks everything, small things will not keep his
attention. He will not be thinking of food, currency, or pieces of property —
he will be thinking of the largest possibility.
If you desire for everything, would ten crore rupees be a
big thing on your mind? It would be nothing for you. The planet Earth would
also not be a very big object in your mind. It is a tiny piece of nothing in
this vast galaxy.
If you become absolutely greedy, then you become
spiritual. If you are stingy in your greediness, you just become materially
greedy. It is stinginess which is the problem, not greed.
You are so stingy that you will not smile fully, laugh
fully, cry fully, dance fully, sing fully, or do anything fully. This is
stinginess, not greed. If you are greedy, you would aspire that not just you,
but everything in the existence should be well.
(Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a
prominent spiritual leader, author and poet www.ishafoundation.org)
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