RE: Material Pursuits
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• July 15, 1999
Thumbs up! What an excellent topic. Everyone can relate to it yet it is not likely it will create a frenzied discussion that can end only in a stalemate. I would like to submit a thought to the discussion. Is it possible that the issue is not so much How much money/wealth we amass But rather when, if ever, we are satisfied? I think when we seek to provide for ourselves and our family, sometimes we create a burden not of wealth but of envy and competition. You are happy with what you have until someone you perceive as having "more" or "better" moves in next door. This does not just have to be about money and cars. It can also be about "I go to the temple this many times and do puja every day. "oh how nice I do as well AND I have a priest come to my house once a year to do Satyanarayana Puja" and it goes on and on. It gets worse when people increase the sphere of this competition. it is really painful when people discuss their children as if they were commodities. How much this one makes. How that one is a valedictorian and violin prodigy who just won the Science fair and you are so proud until a new family moves in and their child is all of the above and recites shlokas in Sanskrit. Now your kid is taking swimming and Hinduism classes at the university gifted program just to keep up. Do you know what I mean? What do you think? Is this too much of a tangential topic?
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