The money you pay for something must be commensurate with its practical utility, but how do you know something is worth its price? For example, does jewellery really have any utility that you pay so much for just a piece of metal? The average Indian household spends much more on the girl’s dowry than on her education. And poor farmers in India are often pushed to suicide because they spend a lot on weddings and funerals by borrowing at exorbitant rates. This is what happens when you are not deeply spiritual: you can be easily conditioned to earn from the wrong source and spend at the wrong place.
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Questioner: Good evening, sir. First of all, I’m Tushar, a first-year BTech student from IIT Goa. I was going through your book Truth Without Apology, and there is a chapter named “Good Spirituality is Good Economics.” In the last line, you have mentioned that, “Real economics is not separate from real spirituality.”
How can you link spiritual things; nirvana and all that stuff, with materialistic things like economics, money? And now you’re saying deforestation is wrong. I cannot get your point.
Acharya Prashant: “Good spirituality is good economics,” right?
Questioner: Yes, sir.
