Decision-making is such a problem with most people, whereas decision-making should not be needed at all. One should not be required to make a choice at all. Clarity makes the entire process of making a choice very redundant. If you know who you are and what you want, if you have that clarity, why will you require to spend time thinking about the choice to make? If you are someone who remains confused in the hour of the choice, then you should know that the confusion is not about that choice in particular. The confusion is arising due to an inner darkness.
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Acharya Prashant: Decision-making is such a problem with most people, whereas decision-making should not be needed at all. One should not be required to make a choice at all. Clarity makes the entire process of making a choice very redundant. If you know who you are and what you want, if you have that clarity, why will you require to spend time thinking about the choice to make? If you are someone who remains confused in the hour of the choice, then you should know that the confusion is not about that choice in particular. The confusion is arising due to an inner darkness.
You say you don't know how to prioritize between work and your family, but what is it that you want in life? What is your situation like? What is your inner incompleteness all about? What is the direction you must proceed in? If proceeding in that direction requires you to work and work hard then obviously you will work. Whereas if your chief inner angst pertains to relationships or love, then it should be clear to you that you would rather spend time with a few related persons. At least for a certain period. Then the question of the money. "Must I spend or save?" But what do you need money for, first of all? Why must you have even one rupee if you don't need that rupee? And if you have a worthwhile purpose that requires you to have fifty crores, why must you not intensively labour to accumulate those fifty crores? Your inner requirement could be of one rupee or fifty crores, only you can know, and that inner requirement does not pertain to greed or the urge to consume. Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya has a university to raise, and he went around the entire country collecting donations. He, too, was accumulating money. He had a higher purpose in mind. What do you need money for? What purpose do you have in life? If you indeed do have a higher purpose in life, then, by all means, accumulate money.
