Body, Mind or Spirit?

Which is more important to our growth - money, mind or spirit? I know that this is an old question served in a new container. Money here refers to all sorts of physical pleasures we yearn, while mind refers to those elements of thinking and understanding and spirit refers to that subtle energy on which human body is temporarily seated or that portion of the self that connects anyone to God. Now, don’t you feel that the answer I expects is what you consider you are - mind matter or spirit?

We have many millions of Netizens all around the world. It has come that everybody wants everything run on a soft touch - smartness everywhere. But the fact is that the smarter the world the weaker the people; this is simple science. The more unavoidable things are there in our life the more masters are there to whom we are enslaved. How many of these netizens know that they are unknowingly feeding a few giant companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc.? These companies have something in common; they are all Americans. I do not say that these are the biggest companies in the world or Americans only grow. Instead, let me put my question in another words; what was the main factor, which contributed to the growth of these companies? You can include other companies also in this category to try an honest answer. No biographer of any of the founders of these companies has stressed the grade of anybody’s moral or spiritual standing to be the critical reason of their success, though they might have contributed to it at different degrees. So we cut off the qualities of Spirit from the list of choices for so big a material success. A thorough analysis on the majority of these millionaires shows that they received no family money. That is, money also was not the deciding factor.

Then what? The only option left is mind matters. I checked it with the commonly seen American/European cultural attitude. It is clearly positive. These people think on how something can be done instead of brooding over if something is possible. Then why all the Westerners did not become millionaires? The answer is that most of the people differ in their aspirations, reluctant to be occupied like a washer man’s donkey. In USA, people work during weekdays and celebrate/spend on weekends. Their kitchens are mostly unused. Rather than accumulating money, which they know is of no use, they live enjoying life to its best. 

I suggest all religious Easterners to review on what generally hold them back. Where in the west, all babies are born into a country, in the East, babies are born into a religion. Where religions hold you from flying off with our aspirations and stick on putting us behind the bars of traditions and philosophies – all advocating that God can be seen only through priests, success remains a mile away. Religious people envision God outside while successful people experience God inside. This is what we might realize even in the extremes of blind faith. The earlier people understand this truth the earlier they will be seen shining beyond horizons, be it spiritual or physical.

Joseph Mattappally