The Real Purpose of Wealth

Question: Nithyanandam. I am following what you are saying. So far you've been very clear and I had the thought what about the idea of having wealth or rather purpose attached to my wealth. I have a purpose... why I want to build my wealth. Would you talk about that?

SWAMIJI: Yes, see, purpose attached to wealth, if it out of powerfulness, your belief on the purpose, great! Sometime we carry a deep guilt, ‘without purpose we should not be having wealth’. So, let the purpose not be from that powerlessness or the guilt which we develop from young age ‘without purpose wealth should not be built’. Let the purpose be your real faith which you will fulfil it, whether the wealth is there or not.

See, when you are so clear about the purpose, then, FOR that purpose build wealth. But also make sure – we all have a very innate guilt that ‘wealth should not be built without a purpose’. Let purpose not be added to wealth because of that guilt. Then it’s a powerless decision. Wealth is, you have a right to enjoy wealth as wealth. It does not need to be associated with purpose. And you have a right to have purpose as purpose. It is not necessary wealth should always be associated with it. Let mixing and matching be your joy... joy choice, not any social belief conditioning compulsion. That’s all.

Understand, wealth does not make somebody a leader, your relevance to purpose and your purposes relevance to the world, how much your purpose is relevant to world, how much you are relevant to your purpose - that makes you a leader. That's all makes you a leader.