Sunday, January 17, 2010

Spirituality and Money

Sri. Craig Sastry and Jill Yogini have organized a pilot Financial Seminar at Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple of Austin on January 16, 2010.  It was pretty informative, interactive, and entertaining for the small group attended.  I posted a couple of video clips of Sri. Sastry's talk (with his permission) on money and spirituality below.  I decided to shoot these clips on the fly, with my camera - so, no tripod and sub-optimal vantage point; hence the shaky image.

I totally agree with Sri. Sastry's take on
charity and its necessity.  If we put it off thinking "I will do it after I get everything I want", it may never happen.  Economics 101 - goods are limited and wants are unlimited! I believe that the United States has prospered because the population in general is very generous and it accumulated good karma as a result of it - of course, a few unfortunate among us, end up taking money a little too seriously.  I think India too is managing to prosper for the same reason in spite of poverty, population boom, and natural calamities - there are millions of generous people who are sharing what ever little they have.  Anyway, enjoy the videos.



4 comments:

రామ ShastriX said...

Nice, Gopa.

As Jack London observed: "Charity is not giving a bone to the dog; charity is sharing the bone with the dog."

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Gopa said...

Nice one Raama. The other one I like is - "He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.” - Confucius

Unknown said...

Very well said by Mr.Craig. I remember Swami Vivekananda's saying: "Work hard for the money flow to you. But don't get attached to it". Thank you for uploading these videos.

Sas said...

Lets %#$#@ the quotes and like Nike says "Just do it".