The real meaning of prosperity

Hey, how's it going?

You know, today I want to speak about, you know, prosperity.

And, you know, it's it's a it's something which every one of us wants.

You know, every human being, when he gets he or she gets up, you know, we want to be, let me say, you know, I want you to be prosperous.

You know, people blessed that you prosper.

So what is prosperity?

And I believe, and and I've taken this from all the great ones, is that prosperity means having no more than 3 core desires.

If you have more than 3 desires, you are poor.

I mean, that's what it is.

And if you see all the great ones, you know, like when we have, you know, more than 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or whatever number of desires, we sell ourselves thin.

Like it's like, you know, our we have a certain amount of energy and we can only apply that to certain desires.

So If you have more number of desires, you know, the more the number of desires, you know, the more poor you are.

So, you know, poverty, you know, when when we say that someone is not prosperous, doesn't mean that he or she doesn't have money or wealth or whatever it is in relationship or money.

It means that he or she has got a truckload of desires.

So that's what makes you poor.

And What makes you abundant, what makes you prosperous is when you have only 2 or 3 desires.

You see, when you have only 2 or 3 core desires, you can easily, you know, apply all your strength, all your energy towards those 2 or 3 desires and make a very good show out of it.

Otherwise, you know, what happens is you just dilute your energy.

It's like, you know, if you have 10 things to take care of, you know, you know, let's say you get up in the morning and all you got to do is just two things.

Just see how wonderful it becomes.

It becomes so easy for the brain to process, to apply your energy.

But let's say if you, you know, don't know what to do or you say, I have to do this, all what happens is your tamas guna comes up.

You see, when you have truckload of desires and you really don't know what to do, all that happens is your all your tamas guna your, you know, negative energy, the tamas and rajas which is accumulated comes up.

So the more number of desires, the more the rajas and the tamas is generated, and the fewer the desires, only that much, you know, the sattvic energy is generated.

So very important, if you have fewer number of desires, divine energy is generated as you work, and when you have more desires, you know, your rajas and tamas is generated, and so you suffer.

And even if you get those few things, you're not happy.

So very, very important that prosperity has got a lot to do with managing desires and less to do with what you have, okay?

Because if you have 2-3 core desires and you get that, you'll be really, really, really happy.

And so that is what the great ones did.

So first Dharma and then Karma.

So first what they did is Their greatest desire was to, you know, get in touch with the consciousness.

This is sacrosanct for all the great ones.

That's number one desire, and the other two, I leave it to you to choose.

It could be in money, health, or relationship, and just keep it to two.

If it is more than two, you are going to suffer because that's the rule of the game.

I mean, you can you will sell yourself short, you will not practice Dharma, and the desires will just sweep you away and it will take your focus away from the Dharma.

So when you have only 2 core desires, then you will get the time to have the 3rd desire and you'll be able to fulfill it.

So first Dharma and then Kama.

Hope it is you know in useful to you.

Thank you and God bless.