When I look at people who are in the race for money, the first question I ask them is: Tell me, really, what are you compensating for? What hole are you trying to fill? There is surely some bottomless pit and endless well that you are trying to fill.
You will never be able to fill it. All your money will go waste. Money can buy only that which money can buy. Money can buy you bread. How will money buy you peace? But you are accumulating money because you do not have peace. Will all your money buy you even an iota of peace? Will all your achievements get you love?
So, desires are good, desires are wonderful, but only as long as they are just desires. They must not become a proxy for the desire for the Ultimate.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
