It is one kind of misfortune to not have money at all. The next kind of misfortune is to have a lot of money rotting in your bank account. Why must it be there in your bank account? You are so impoverished, you couldn't find a right place where you can spend your money. Money is meant to be spent. Spend it at the right places. Go enroll in a hobby class. Get a tennis coach. All that is expensive. Spend your money. If you won't, then you will end up just buying whatever your friends buy.
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Questioner: Sir, I also have a personal question. You say you cannot live wrongly and hope to consume rightly. I see myself buying stuff that I don't want because it's in trend. My friends are wearing it. Now I'll look cool if I wear it. So this is also conditioning, as you say, right? So how can I personally, how can students like us and youth escape this? What's the definite path of this?
Acharya Prashant: Have a beautiful place to wisely spend your money at. You'll be left with no surplus. You won't splurge it.
The first question is, why do you have so much money that you can blow it away? There are great places and great causes and great reasons that demand your money. Invest your money there. Spend it there.
Self-development doesn't come cheap. A lot of things in this world require monetary investment. If you have money, spend it rightly.
