479. If Money does not help at Crisis, What is the use of amassing Black Money!!!

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1,500 Billion USD (approximately Rs. 90 Lakh Crores) slashed in foreign banks as BLACK MONEY by swindling the economy of my country India, is 3 times larger than the foreign debt (426 Billion USD) incurred by my country.  After paying the entire foreign debt, there will be surplus amount, almost 2 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in lucrative projects and the earning got by them will be more than the annual budget of the Central Government. So even if all the taxes are abolished the Central government will be able to maintain the country very very very comfortably.

We know about many who slog their entire life earning money more than required. There is nothing wrong in earning money as it is termed as one of the pursuits of life. What would start as the fair means of earning sporadically due to want of more will search for unlawful means. Why would one tend to incline towards unlawful means? Well, if we look deep we find that the cause could be due to lack of patience or lack of confidence in self.

As a kid I was taught about the story of the golden goose. How could one forget the essence of that story to lose patience I always wonder? How much is too much is the basic fact to be understood. Why has the thought of earning money that would help maintain family and to some extent enough to be handful at emergency gone? Avariciousness has not let us to be satisfied with just enough money to maintain family and cultivate spiritual maturity. Money is required unlimited not only for satisfying insatiable desires but for the generations to come. The whole generation could not be blamed however even in this modern era where the culture of philanthropy is become a fairy tale, at holy month of Ramdan Muslims brethrens part one third of their earnings in the name of Zakat and many other religious followers use suitable time to donate to others.

Laws of nature do not allow us to accept anything more than is required for proper maintenance and what we deserve. There is abundance for our need definitely not for our greed. The arrangement is such that every living being gets his due share of food and shelter. Every individual is allowed to take any amount of salt for the dish, but one should not take more than needed. If he adds more salt than needed he is spoiling the taste of the dish. The insatiable lust has made some to go beyond the line drawn by the law of nature and make money more than required. When the money earned is illegal and is not declared as per the law of the land it ends up being BLACK MONEY. What is the use of amassing money if it would not help a person on his deathbed? We have seen many great leaders and business tycoons who amassed money by using the power, policies and lobbying yet that black money could not save them at the time of crises. Such wealth only helps in boosting ego, but fate will take its own course. 

I always wondered why great souls like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharshi were extremely allergic to money as they termed it as one of the illusions of Maya. They knew Money itself was not Maya, but thinking that it help in crisis is due to Maya. Understood that they were renunciant and would not need money and they lived in the hermit and were not in touch with the outer world, but look what happened to the person who had captured almost three fourth of this earth plane. He became so wise and understood that he would depart from this world leaving all that he had conquered. Hence he ordered that when he died his coffin should have two holes on the sides through which his bare hands should be put out, for the world to see that he is taking nothing with him! I am talking about ALEXANDER, the Great.