The more the money, the greater the insecurity.
The poor share so easily.
The poor share so easily.
Why ?
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- Because money is fictitious
- Swarnaditya Upal Daswhat is real ?
- Aparna Krishnanlove and care for others
- The feeling of being devoid doesn’t affect the poor. Insecurity enrobes the rich.
- Aparna KrishnanI just did say. The feeling of being devoid does not happen with the poor but happens a lot with the rich. Nothing to lose attitude stays with the poor.
- Ramanan Meenakshi Subramanithe poor have more to lose. If the rich lose half their wealth, they will still have food and clothing.If the poor lose, they and their children will starve.Yet they give without a thought, that simply.
- Aparna KrishnanOfcourse it’s a given that they lose everything. But my point is, they are so much in dearth that they won’t feel the pinch even if they lost everything. I might sound prejudiced but that’s human psychology. You give it all when you have nothing to lose. Aparna Krishnan
- Ramanan Meenakshi Subramanithey have everything to lose. The rich contrarily have nothing to lose if they give away 50% of their wealth.
- Aparna KrishnanYet the rich won’t give cos they feel they will lose everything even if they part take with a little. That’s the sad mentality of the rich. That they will start losing their marbles if they start giving.
- Aparna KrishnanIt’s predominantly a psychological thing . A rich person tend to identify his possession & riches as part of himself or sense of himself .For a poor person the possessions are less , for him / her the primary worth is himself their material riches are meagre so he / she tends to give up things with relative ease .I am not saying what is right or wrong just explaining the dynamics around this .
- Kay VeeI second this thought.
- Kay Veewhy does the rich man identify with his money ?As opposed to his gods, his community, his roots, his dharmam?
- Aparna Krishnanbecause he sees it as more worthy than ‘himself’ . Humans tend to identify themselves with the more precious aspects ( money , fame , prestige , beauty etc )Also there is no point in earning money if he can’t ‘hold on’ to it .The same thing that drives him to become rich in first place also holds him up from sharing or giving it away .
- Kay VeeGods, community, dharmam. Those ?Agree with the last para.
- Aparna KrishnanHe likes them , but perhaps does not value them as much as money / wealth .
- Kay Veejust his nature ? Or the nature of money itself ?
- Aparna KrishnanValues are influenced by his needs & drives . Environment also plays a small role.
- Well what were you expectingAparna Krishnanas an answer?
- Ramanan Meenakshi SubramaniI am a seeker. I dont have answers.
- "Desire is the seed for sorrow " - Buddha
- Seshagiri BVthe rich desire more ? Why ?
- Aparna KrishnanDesire and Greed to accumulate more.
- Seshagiri BVwhy do the rich suffer more from Desire ?
- Aparna Krishnanthe Rich after having experienced the pleasure of material comfort, they feel more the merrier.While the poor are in pain, distress and hopeless that's why they are ready to part /share with the little they have.All are born from the mothers womb, its the environment which shapes and influences many.Why Azim Premji one of the richest person donated 90% of his wealth for charity ?Theory of karma.
- Azim Premji's giving 90% is far smaller than my neighbour Eashwaramma giving away one glass of rice when all she has for her and her grandchildren is 5 glasses at home at the bottom of a sack. And hunger at the end of that.
- Aparna KrishnanAkka it's your opinion and you are entitled for it and I have my opinion and I am entitled for it.Eshwarmma's one glass rice can feed 4 to 6 persons. Azeem Premjis estimated 22 Crores per day can feed one Crore empty stomachs."No contribution is big or small."
- Seshagiri BVwe the privileged give of our excess. The poor give of their necessity, facing hunger.That giving is the giving of the Gods.
- Aparna Krishnanis not a sin starving your own kith and kin."Charity begins at home".Where in the scriptures its written, you starve your family and feed others.
- Aparna Krishnan"Thanaku maalina dharmam modalu chedda beram."
- When you have more, you fear losing it. When you don't have anything, you don't fear losing it.I was reflecting on this someday with my life as an example from childhood till now.
- Samrat Roy Chowdhurithe poor have enough to feed their child the next day. And yet they give to another in greater need.The truth is deepe
- It also comes from a sense of understanding of what it means to not have sufficient. What poverty means, etc.
- Samrat Roy ChowdhuriCourage.Why does riches cause that courage to die.
- Aparna KrishnanIt's in the mind, and I would not call it courage. The rich does not know what deprivation is and hence don't realize what it means to be in poverty.If you get a rich man to poverty and allow him to stay with it for 6 months, he will start sharing.
- So courage to face lack, and still give. The poor have it. The rick dont.
- if we don't have we don't Care,if we have some, we want More, some more than some some more.....Money has Magnetic Power
- When u got nothing to loose you give I guess
- Sridhar Lakshmanannope. They have quarter sack of rice at home. To feed the children for a week. But out of that they give.That's everything to lose.
- Aparna Krishnanvery succinctly whthere is less people co-operate and share the degree of cooperation correlates to depravity one suffers as a community. More the money people divide themselves and ultimately become individuals in the true sense of the word - they can't be divided any further
- Sridhar Lakshmanan... and that co operation becomes a way of being itself.Money corrupts. Sridhar Lakshmanan
- Aparna Krishnanmoney divides when you hoard it or seek it without understanding what that animal is
- The story of the 7.5 pots of gold is very ancient
- Aparna Krishnanhave you read " ninyanabbe ke chakkar mein"
- Sridhar Lakshmanansame story maybe
- Fear of losing
- Suresh Rangarajanonly the rich fear ?
- Losing what they have. The more you have the bigger the fear.
- That's what it is. You can't fear losing something you don't have.
- The poor have. Enough to feed the family for a week. And of that little they give. UnthinkinglyThe privileged have enough to feed generations. To give away half of that will still feed and cloth them. For far far longer than a week. And yet they fear to.
- Less the money, the greater the insecurity. Equally applicable?
- Murthy Sudhakarthst security that allows one to share of ones half glass of rice at home.That is the security I am speaking of here.
- Aparna KrishnanI was not questioning the poor’s willingness to share. Insecurity is a consequence of less money as much as in the case of more money, as you state.
- Murthy Sudhakarsecurity is a state of mind.
If we had to choose. Would we choose for our child.
Poverty and an infinite generosity.
Or
Richness, and loss of that infinite generosity.
I asked my daughter. "Richness and infinite generosity", she said.
And then after a second she added. "If one had that infinite generosity, one would not be rich." Silence. On both sides. As that point sunk in.
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