What to do about money worries : You , Greece & The Global Economy

Dear All,

While it's easy to make a connection between your meditation and how much better you feel mentally and physically, the connection between your meditation/kundalini awakening and any changes in your material circumstances may not be so apparent. But it does exist and, in my experience and that of others, usually takes one of several forms.

These are (for example):

 Getting a new job(perhaps losing an old one); unexpectedly coming into some money; gaining a promotion at work or some form of autonomy;  moving house - ( it's quite easy to stop meditating at this point, because the new circumstances take over, but best is to persist)

If none of the above has happened to you, but , on the contrary you find your circumstances rather tight , then don't worry :o). In the same way that you are able to cure yourself of a physical condition by following a specific recommended sahaja yoga treatment, there's a treatment for financial ailments as well :o) .

But before we come to that, let's consider the country of Greece. In case you don't pay much attention to the financial news, Greece has a very serious debt problem, with Debt-to-GDP ratio of 175% . This means that if you were to dig a very big hole to represent Greece's debts and poured into it the total productive output of Greece's economy for a year, it would only come just a little more than half way up to covering the hole.

The world has a lot to thank the Greeks for . They invented politics ('polis' 'attica' - Athenian Democracy) and economics (agora - marketplace) and may have  contributed to the foundations of the modern computer technology era by inventing logic (Aristotelian logic ) . All this was a deviation from the original philosophy of Socrates and since Socratic 'philosophy' was exactly that : 'philo' - love of , 'sophy/sofia' - the feminine principal of wisdom, it may explain why things began going downhill after that .

That's not all. According a sahaja yoga understanding Greece represents the Nabhi/Navel chakra of the world ( Delphi ) . If there's a problem with the Nabhi Chakra, then the whole body is unwell. So if Greece is in bad shape, it's not a very good sign for where the whole global economy is headed (assuming that the 2008 global recession is behind us).

To treat your 'inner Greece'  then :o), use of an ancient mantra, called the Shri Sukta may help. Go into thoughtless awareness for a few minutes then with left palm open on the lap and right-hand placed over the navel listen and watch the clip. Repeated viewings, and on headphones is useful. The Shri Sukta is associated with 'Yagnya' (explained in notes below).

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards

Notes:

Yagnya  - according to ancient Indian philosophy, the whole universe is born out of yagnya,  is sustained by yagnya and is continuously engaged in performing yagnya. When you perform any work, this is yagnya. All organisations/institutions/

companies are doing yagnya of one sort or another.  The yagnya within the human body is the digestive process, by which we take in food to sustain our continued existence. The essence of the digestive process is the digestive 'fire'  which breaks the food down and turns it into nutrients that nourish the body.  The action of the digestive 'fire' is to 'consume' , so yagnya can be viewed as the process of consumption. In consumption there is something that is consumed and there is the consumer. From these two come the concept of supply and demand. An ideal example of the working of the system of supply and demand might be in ecology or an environmental system , where supply meets demand in a continuous self-sustaining cycle. Such a system can be said to be in a balanced state of  equilibrium. It is kept in a state of equilibrium by an inherent intelligence within the system (Mother Nature/Ritambhara Prajna).  Compare this to the human system ie the economy. The 'inherent intelligence' of the ecological system is replaced in the human system by the 'market' - which is generally in state of dis-equilibrium.  From the idea of the market comes 'money'. The first money had an intrinsic value: eg. cowrie shells and gold. Later on we started using bits of paper which were promissory notes/ IOUs ie ' I promise to give you one cow for the ten chickens you gave me'. And this is how the idea of debt came into existence  So whether you have a mortgage, a loan or use credit cards, it easy to see how the whole global economy is based on credit or debt. And debt is the gremlin in the system. Which means that there's always going to be a problem.  Unless, somehow, the economic system can converge into the ecological one. And this may be happening. In recent years there seems to be a collective unconscious push in this direction with increasing interest in 'Green' issues, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Business Ethics, Ethical Investments, Social Enterprises, Recycling, CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) etc. Which all makes sense : If we're all evolving into a better version of ourselves part of that must be about living in a better and more harmonious relationship with the earth and with each other.