The Key to Health, Wealth & Success

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THE KEY TO HEALTH, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS;

In a book about the life of Shri Raman Maharshi that I have, it states that a wealthy and influential visitor to his ashram asked Shri Raman Maharshi as to how he may improve the world, so full of sorrow and grief. Shri Raman Maharshi advised the man to first improve his own lot, to remove all sorrow and grief from his own life, and the world will reflect the improvement he feels in himself.

(Shri Raman Maharshi was not promoting an "I am all right Jack" attitude. His biography I am reading clearly shows the degree of compassion he had for all living things, and regard for all nature.)


It is in that spirit that I spend time at my self development, and hope that you, too, would want to avoid the mistakes I made in life. If you are young, and just starting out in your career, you will have a happy successful life, where you can develop your potential to the full.

It is now clear to me that one's sense of one's being is the ultimate cause of one's situation in life.

The concept is easy to grasp by considering the case of an overweight person who wants to slim. If that person has in his mind that he is fat, and ugly, he will need all his will power to restrain himself from eating his chocolates and cakes. He will want to be fitter, but the basic idea remains that he is overweight. By sheer force of his will, he may reduce his calorie intake, and reduce his weight, but all the while it would be a tough assignment, like driving a car forward with the brakes on.
And should he drop guard, he will return back to his overweight self.

This is the story for most people wanting to slim.

But if instead, the person changes his mind image, that he is slim, fit, then restraining from the food he loves would be no problem - the food would not as attractive to him anymore.

Notice that the change in the mind of the image is even when the body is overweight. This chage is the one that is difficult, but not as hard as willpower needed with the earlier situation.

I now feel that I had faced similar problems all my life. I was brought up in a family where being frugal is a virtue.
All my society praised economy in living, saving wastage - "A penny saved is a penny earned" - "Money does not grow on trees" - "Time is Money" - meaning one must work to earn money to survive - Being smart is making a bargain deal with any purchases etc.

At the root of all these homilies about proper living is the feeling that we are poor. I may make a lot of effort to earn money, but at the root of it all I remain with "I am poor" mentality. Being aware of it, as I am now, I sensed this poor mentality in many people on my recent travels in India. The beggar, the young man pleading to shine my shoes, the lady haggling with the vegetable vendor, the man rummaging through second hand clothes to pick a bargain, all, it seemed to me, were victims of the " I am poor" mentality that I was trying to shake off.

I wish I had been taught to change my mentality to "I am rich." when beginning my secondary school. Then I would still have practiced economy, frugal life style, save wastage, etc. but knowing that I chose to do so, rather than because I was poor.

I am not advocating that you spend beyond your means. The only change is that you do not grudge the daily expenditure of living. You willingly spend on what has to be spent with joy, knowing that more money is to flow to you to refill your coffers.

The same concept may be used for improving one's health. It may be used for any undertaking one begins in life.

This is the message given to me in all the studies on self-improvement I have done after my retirement, at some cost to me, but free of charge to you, because I am rich enough to afford to give it away.

All we can do is try to adopt this message. There is nothing to be lost, and much to be gained.

That, the image one has in his mind of one's own being, is the key to Health, Wealth and Success. We now need do no more than turn it into the lock.

Wishing you all the best, Shree-1