Spiritual Economics Money is
Spiritual Economics
Money is neither created nor destroyed is the 1st law of economics. The Vedas and Upanishads affirm that the spirit is neither created nor destroyed. A beautiful verse from the Vedas states, "Purnamada purnamidam purnaath purnamudacchyate purnasya purnamadaya purnamevavashishyathe". In English- That is whole (complete), this is complete, when a part is removed from the whole, the part is also whole and what remains is also whole!
Economics ensures the flow of money in its various forms to be in inexhaustible dynamics. However if a part was removed or "hoarded" without being pumped back into the dynamic flow of money, there is a temporary imbalance created in nations and nature. However the flow can never be stopped. The miserly of the miserly, even they have to leave it all behind when leaving this planet. Even money gotten thru' illegal means aka corruption, finds a flow through the service industry and others. While this sort of flow is partitive suggesting source-sink, input-output, exploiter-exploited, giver-taker models, the vedic affirmation as mentioned above breaks that model. Here we find a paradigm shift happening within, beyond expression and even thought- sheer experience that unifies the divisive models mentioned above, creating an integrative experience.
This, the Whole was also called Love. You give it, you feel complete. You receive it, you feel complete. You think you give a "part" away, labelling it "motherly love" or "sisterly love" or "friendly love" or "spousal love", but in essence it is complete- no partitive property here. Even after giving it away, what remains is complete. Then one may ask, then why all the pain associated with love? The pain comes in the partitive understanding of our minds. From our childhood, we are fed the partitive expression of the world. For identity or the fear of losing it, we create more partitions that become defined as we grow up. Then we begin to crave for more parts to be filled to feel complete- little realising that all it takes is integration!
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