If you want to be financially successful, then profusely infuse your mind with the thoughts of prosperity. Do not think that you are living in poverty, impoverishment, and wretchedness. The worst thing in the world is the thought of being miserable. When paucity enters one’s thoughts, he always cries for luck, even on being wealthy. The inauspicious thoughts of poverty prevent us from being prosperous and keep us stuck in the state of poverty. You were not born on earth to live in an inferior state of poverty, misery, or forlornness. You were not born to be a slave only for a handful of grain or cloths.
Why do the poor always remain in a state of impoverishment? The chief reason for this is that they destroy their higher aspirations, pious superior presumptions, healthy and enthusiastic thoughts, and submerge into lethargy and imprudence, making their heart constricted, petty, loveless, and desperate. When invaded with marginal poverty, life comes to a standstill, progress is obstructed, and the person becomes incapacitated beneath a load of debt. He even finds it difficult to upkeep his glory and self-respect. Those with poverty-stricken thoughts have been seen to grow old before time. Children born in low-income families develop such complex mental knots of poverty in their subconscious mind that they cannot achieve anything high or superior in life. Poverty causes lotus-like fresh faces to lose their luster and destroys even the supreme desires. This distressed mental state of poverty is enough to crush the personality. Millions of people are immersed in the pit of this frivolousness.
Financial success also requires a state of mind, caliber, and striving attitude. Therefore, to invoke Goddess Lakshmi, one needs certain mental tendencies for worshiping her. On the occasion of Lakshmi Puja of Deepawali, we sweep, clean, paint, and decorate our homes. At the same time, we adorn ourselves with new clothes and ornaments. A similar process needs to be followed in the mental realm for worshiping her. More clearly, it means that one should use the broom of prudence to clean the webs of poverty, meanness, narrowness, and debt from every corner of the mind and paint the mind with the brightness of optimism.
Further, the blissful pictures of joy, hope, enthusiasm, happiness, humor, bliss, and cheerfulness should be affixed in the mental house. Then, one should pray to the Goddess of Wealth according to the rules of diligence and frugality. In this way, we will attain financial success. The greatest of all the skills is the one which teaches us to clean the mind of malefic and evil thoughts.
It is never the desire of our Supreme Father, the Almighty, that we remain the slaves of others from the financial aspect. He has given us wisdom, by using which we can understand the difference between proper and unreasonable spending, refrain from lust and intoxicants, cut down on our unreasonable expenses, extravagance and fashion, and stop various wasteful expenditures in our home. It is in our hands to increase our income. As much as we work hard and enhance our talents and gain excellence, recognition, and proficiency in our skills, our income will grow in the same proportion. There is no injustice in the world. Everybody acquires wealth according to his caliber and skills. Then why should we not augment our abilities and prove ourselves worthy in every way in this struggle?
While drawing attention to the essential elements of prosperity, Orison Swett Marden has written in his book, ‘Peace, Power and Plenty’ – ‘We were made for happiness, to express joy and gladness, to be prosperous. The trouble with us is that we do not trust the law of infinite supply but close our natures so that abundance cannot flow to us. In other words, we do not obey the law of attraction. We keep our minds so pinched and our faith in ourselves so small, so narrow, that we strangle the inflow of supply. Abundance follows the law as strict as that of mathematics. If we obey it, we get the flow; if we strangle it, we cut it off. The trouble is not in supply; there is abundance awaiting everyone on the globe.’
He writes further – ‘Prosperity is a product of the creative mind. The mind that fears, doubts, depreciates its powers, is a negative, non-creative mind, one that repels prosperity, repels supply. It has nothing in common with abundance, hence cannot attract it.
Of course, men do not mean to drive opportunity, prosperity, or abundance away from them; but they hold a mental attitude filled with doubts and fears and lack of faith and self- confidence, which virtually does very thing without their knowing it.’
” The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new. – Socrates”
Akhand Jyoti Magazine 2022 Jan-Feb