Desi economics

 

Desi economics

It is so tough, to ‘balance' spirituality and materialism in our worldly life 🙏

Vivekananda said “religion cannot be taught on a hungry stomach!” ( Very basic! Spirituality cannot subsist without strong economics 🙏. Today GDP is a simple Yardstick to measure. In ancient times, “samruddhi/prosperity” had a better Yardstick, “flourishing of 64 Fine arts”. )

No other culture ( to my information) can boast of this: most brilliant community lives by begging only. 😂 ( It ensures that “fine balance”. Details —too elaborate to write here🙏)

A lady who is familiar with my ‘mind’( we never met) wrote a personal observation, which prompted me to write this. Having written, I changed my mind, and decided to blog it, because, my narrative drifted away from the initial intent🙏

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Over years, I have noticed and also appreciate a certain kind of "acceptance" about ..... yourself, for yourself....in you . Which is very good and very significant, from spirituality point of view 👍

The advantage is not by default.  It needs a conscious effort.

The puranic/epic example of such acceptance is quoted in a main villain (😂), not just ordinary people like us! The idea is to 'highlight' the spiritual significance quoting an extreme example 🙏. (Duryodhana says, "I know both, dharma and adharma. But I can't imbibe dharma, nor can I get rid of adharma. " The hint is tooo subtle! So also is the 'advantage', और भी सूक्ष्म 🙏। Krish hints about the 'advantage' to Bhima, who could not ‘douse’  the fire of his खुन्नस/bitterness against duryodhana, despite the incapacitated_physiology of the latter 🤣.  प्रवचन कार/preachers  cleverly or ignorantly omit to dwell on this tiny aspect, 🙏.)

"lazy" is something that needs a careful look( for instance).  A person, sitting idle, for instance....need not be lazy 🙏.  there is a dynamic  state in inaction too🙏.  Ramana maharishi was 'idling' on a huge rock atop the huge  mountain at arunachala hills. But his 'presence' made everything around work 'damn well' 🤣.

Vysya( bijness community, by several diverse names in Bharat) were 'keen' observers of wandering Brahmins 😜.  “साला, ये भीख मंगे के मौजूदगी ही काफी है, 🙏....सब कुछ ठीकठाक चल रहा है 😳🤔। इसको कुछ भी करके पकड़ कर रखना फायदा है 😜” they felt। This, a 'tradition' रिवाज़ in south, where.... a Chettiar won't 'eat' his lunch, if his spouse didn't feed a begging_brahmin that day!😂. बेचारी सेठानी को द्वार पर खड़े.... राह देखना चाहिए "can I spot a beggar?". She honours him, requests him to partake food that she would serve with utmost dignity, care & grace🙏. ( I asked my Chettiar colleague, somewhere during 1986, to ask+verify this tradition/रिवाज़, if it really existed among his_people , 200 yrs ago. .... search answer from oldies of 90++ ....I added. He came back wide-eyed, and blurted "yaar, damn right. Why 90+? My dad vouched for this, having heard from his greatgrandpaa🙏. But he is now keen to find out who told me?")

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Summing up very briefly,  the deities of thousands of temples are “idlers” sitting quietly, doing nothing 😜
Beggars(spiritual ones only), eat up the ‘offering’ unlike the deities.
When I decided to experiment “aano bradrah krtavo yantu viswatah”( logo of Bharatiya Vidya bhavan—k m munshi’s pick), repeating it like a kid bitten by a mad dog ( the pace of repetition), I got results which I am unable to show, prove or demonstrate.
But, it gave me insight to ‘liken’ a deity with sophisticated repeater_towers, intelligent too, and those beggars with mobiles offering “tethering connectivity” to ancient version of data_storage of cloud_computing universal Servers 😜🙏🙏🙏. Dunno if I am “technically” right/wrong. But the damn thing works for me 🙏….

Impersonally yours,
psn(4 Jan, 2026)