Good spirituality is good economics. We do not know what to purchase. We do not know what really is valuable, even in the material domain. The punishment of not being spiritual is that you lead a very bad, a very ruined worldly life and that includes an economic life, a ruined economic life. It is not merely the person, even nations, actually the entire world suffers when the one making the economic decision is spiritually bankrupt.
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Questioner: Namaste, Acharya Ji. So, the way we are brought up, everything is related to money.
Money is always the centre. But I have heard people saying that economics and spirituality can't go together; they can't go hand in hand. I wanted to ask if there are any economic benefits of being spiritual?
Acharya Prashant: See, economics concerns the material world. Everything that is material comes in the purview of economics. Economics is the science of material welfare. But when it comes to material, there are so many choices that you have, right? For example, at this moment, what are the material things you can see around yourself?
Questioner: Everything—this hall. The things we are using...
