We build 3d Holistic Wealth with the vision that wealth should serve your mind, body and soul and should create balance, harmony & peace in your life.
Today we will talk about why spiritual wealth is of utmost importance.
When we invest in physical assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, mutual funds etc, we build physical wealth, but when we invest in spiritual assets such as pursuing a purpose driven life, charitable giving, finding our creator, mindfulness, and meditation, we build spiritual wealth. The gains, interest and dividends delivered by physical investments are limited and have a finite end, but the gains delivered by spiritual investments are unlimited and never-ending.
Soul’s greatest need:
We all know that soul’s greatest need is to find its creator. If you put your purpose in life first, everything else automatically comes with it. To possess our creator is to own the whole universe. At that point we not only own everything, we ARE everything. The creator supplies for our deficiencies and makes our gains permanent.
Slavery in modern society.
All modern societies and cultures believe that we all should have prosperity, health, security and success. We consider it a basic human right. It is our human nature to want these things. These ideals are embedded everywhere from modern products to advertisements to campaign speeches to pursuit of happiness itself. However, most of us do not realize that constant desire for physical wealth and prosperity is the way to slavery because what happens is that the desire for those fulfillments brings slavery to senses.
We all go to vacation spots such as beaches of Hawai, casinos of vegas to Yosemites to Niagara falls to Hollywod to time square and on and on and on. Some of us are foodies who try to satisfy our senses with food, ones who eat food not only out of hunger but also as a hobby. Some of us try to satisfy our senses with constant flux of movies, music, art or entertainment.
However, in all these pursuits there is a constant theme. These all give us immediate but unfortunately, only temporary pleasures. Are you experiencing the same pleasure right now as you experienced on your prom night or at your honeymoon or when you had your dream vacation? Very likely not. Outer fulfillment slaves our soul to material bondage. We need to seek the spiritual wealth first to free ourselves from slavery and bondage to senses.
We are fools till we discover there is no free ride.
We may not realize this but our planet is populated with fools. Because we keep looking for satisfaction outside of us. Trouble with sensory pursuits is that they yield immediate pleasure, but always leave room for unfulfilled desires and dissatisfaction down the road. Millions take on credit card debts to have that shiny object today rather than planning for their financial future because they need it now.
Normal human condition is to seek immediate pleasure. And we slowly and gradually discover that it does not work. Finally, the aging process starts to take bodily toll and we finally realize that life is not the free ride we once thought it was. We are fools until we discover there is no free ride. On the contrary, Spiritual results are tough. They take a lot of work and time commitment. Although the joy provided by spiritual pursuits takes time, but it is permanent.
Suffering is better than it sounds. More human beings are saved by suffering than religious lectures or sermons. We are frequently torn between spiritual and material pursuits. We try to rationalize our pursuit of material happiness with logic. We ask of the universe or the world to give us this and that before we can devote time to pursue deeper purpose of life. However, it does not work that way. And suffering teaches us and puts us on the right path. That is why suffering is one of the most beautiful experiences we as human beings go through.
How do we know whether we are on the right path or not? Those of you who are trying to earn bread for your family may be resisting and asking, who will take care of me and my family. We respond to those questions by pointing out what we said early in this talk that to possess our creator is to own the whole universe. Do not worry, you shall be taken care of.
And those of you who may already be pursuing a purpose driven balanced material and spiritual life may be asking where do I draw the line? Am I on the right path or not? To them we give a good news. Striving for spiritual wealth is not an all or nothing proposition. It’s about adjusting our priorities.
In Closing: I always used to wonder what is “success”, and the best definition of success I ever came across was from Earl Nightingale, who defines Success as the progressive realization of a worthy goal. It means that anyone who’s on course toward the fulfillment of a goal is successful.
We invite you to make that goal a spiritual goal as well.
Most people have not realized that spiritual pursuit which yield permanent happiness is the biggest goal we need to pursue first on daily basis. We invite you to arise, awake and stop not till you find your goal of Life.
We are 3D Holistic Wealth, we are here not only to serve your mind and body but also your soul. Connect with us.