Amma on Economic Crisis: Demon Money vs. Love as Center of Life

note: This is a perspective I totally support. The crash of the old system of leveraged and endless spiral of greed will open the portal for the re-birth of love. But that will take time, but happen faster than we think due to vibrational changes in Mother Earth….Michael

http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/11/mi7_agency_of_lights_n_shadows.shtml

Divine Love, Not Demon Money,
Is The Centre-Point of Life: Amma

Amma began her 55th Birthday Address by saying that the point of
religious and cultural festivals was to help human beings gain peace of
mind. Amma lamented that in general this wasn’t happening. The culprit
Amma said was the world’s obsessive focus on money. “While meditating on
money and luxuries, we forget to live,” Amma said. “We forget the very
love that lends life to life.”

Amma went on to say that life is an opportunity provided for
humans to grow and expand. “That which brings order, purity and meaning
to life is loving thought and action,” Amma said. “Unfortunately, the
only meaning we attribute to life today is as an opportunity to make
money. In order to achieve this end, the human intellect is ready to
accept any means. No wonder values are deteriorating!”

Amma
then explained how spirituality is not opposed to wholesome prosperity or
fulfilling needs,
but that requires one should always look to producing good.
“Strengthening family and the community are the two reasons for
‘commerce’. We need
to make sure that they remain the focus,” Amma said. “That is the
reason
why our saints and seers stressed that the pursuit of artha and
kama — money and pleasure — must never move us from the path of
dharma.”

Speaking about the
global economic crisis centred in Washington, Amma said that the evil
was worldwide, and moral change very long overdue.
However she said that the needed change was primarily
internal — changing our negativities into positive qualities. “If we are
not ready to change, Nature, or Spirit, will take up the task,” Amma said. “SHE will never allow wickedness to overgrow and suffocate virtue.

The
need of the hour is to cultivate a society of good-hearted individuals.”
For that education process, Amma said that we most every day further the
instilling of values in children of all ages, that they will be instilled in ourselves.

“To end the violence of
competition, children should never be indoctrinated with feelings of hatred and
revenge,” Amma said. “We need to teach them to love one another. We
should fill the syllabuses of our colleges and schools with lessons
about nature and culture, love and compassion. This will each day put an end to the
exploitation of the sorrows and miseries of the downtrodden. War and
violent clashes will lessen and we will be able to realize the dream of
world peace. When mutual love grows, Nature
also will become peaceful.”

Amma said that true
happiness can only come through understanding
our own mind. “As long as we are determined to maintain the prisons
created by our old mental weaknesses, nothing can save us,” Amma said.
“If we don’t have the permission and blessing of our own mind,
regardless of what we possess we won’t be happy.”

Amma
explained that attaining happiness was, in truth, not such a difficult
task. All it takes, she said, is love. “Love is the bindu — the
centre-point of life,”
Amma said. “We should perform all our actions,
remaining focused in this centre-point. Only then will we be able to
both experience love for ourselves and share it with others. Today
we’ve managed to transform life into something about everything but
love. It is for this reason that human-machines everywhere are
disappearing and in their place human-beings are taking birth.
Somehow we’re managing to turn that most distant internal separation —
fear and ignorance into the one thing that is in fact the
closest to us — love.”