The
British once ruled over India during the era of British Empire. They have done
a great harm to our psychic attitude. Since their time, we run after free
offers and gifts. We feel that this is the only way to make our life better. They
did not teach us the basic fact that a livelihood is to be earned by hard work.
Instead they gave us freebies and kept us dependents to their mercy. We undermined
hard work and believed in the false notion that blessings are either a free
gift from a foreigner or a thing grabbed through illegal means. We believed
that all rich people have amassed wealth through treacherous acts.
Now, though
bit late, we are learning the fact that wealth is earned and not received as a
gift from a merciful man or mythical god.
Every
blessing is to be earned. In another sense every true blessing that goes from
generation to generation is earned. All money amassed through other means is
not real blessings.
The lowest
worker in our country is the daily worker who does tilling o the ground and
other miscellaneous jobs. He is not a skilled laborer but knows how to do many
untitled jobs in our farm land and around our house. His daily wage is fixed by
the Government and Trade Unions. He comes for work by 8 A.M. and leaves by 5
P.M. we are bound to pay his wage by 5 P.M. as he leaves us. We cannot postpone
the payment for the next day, for he may not come to us on the next day and
there is no written contract between us. So we pay his daily wage. What are we
actually doing by this act? He has been working form morning till evening. Even
if he is not paid, all his works are done. He cannot take back what he has
done.
By paying
the daily wage, we are actually buying his physical work for that day.
Another
example is purchasing things from a super market. We walk around the shop and
pick whatever we like to buy and put them all in a basket. After picking up
everything we need we go to the cash counter and make the payment. We have
already picked up all products and have been carrying them in our basket. Still
it becomes our own only when we pay the price of them. The fact that we have
been carrying them in a basket for such a time does not permit an ownership
over them. We become the owners only when we pay the price at the cash counter.
To own them we have paid the price and bought them.
In both
the above two examples, whether it is human work or products in a store, to own
them we have to buy them by paying their price.
It teaches
us that we can claim an ownership over something only after we have bought them
or earned them by giving a price.
The
principle is extended to all blessings in our life. Earn the blessings by
paying an equivalent price unless, though we carry it, we are not their true
owner.
Charity is
not gift. Charity is lesser than gift.
We conclude
from the above two examples that only those products for which we have paid a
price permits our ownership over them.
So pay for
the daily/weekly/monthly salary. Do not accept it as a charity.
Pay the price
for your wealth; do not accept it as a charity (not even from your father).
Pay for
every coin that is in your pocket; let it not be a charity.
Pay for
success; it must not be a thing conferred on you by chance.
Pay even
for all your spiritual blessings.
Professor
Jacob Abraham
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