Day 82
When you do not accumulate then you get knowledge of previous births and knowledge of different species. The communication in you improves. When a person wants more and more, he just thinks of himself and is obsessed with fear. He does not know the eternal value of life.
Life has been there from ages and will continue for ages to come. Non accumulation means confidence in one's existence and in one's ability, and having knowledge of one's self. If you know how to make bread, then you will not go in making bread for a week and then store it for a year in your room.
It will become stale and inedible.
In China, there is a proverb, "What you give, you gain more. Whatever you scatter, you will have it all. You lose what you hold on to." When you scatter, it all comes back to you. Everything is yours and you are all over.
A person who is very afraid of himself and who has no idea of his strength is very stingy. A person who is very selfish and stingy stores and stores; he accumulates. A very wealthy gentleman was dying. He was on his death bed. However, he was on the phone checking the prices on the share market.
He was going to die at any moment but he was concerned about the share prices and how much he was gaining and how much he was losing. But, he would have to leave everything after death. If money transfer was possible to the other side of death, people would transfer all their assets before dying.
Lawyers would not have to write wills. Fortunately or unfortunately, this is not possible. People accumulate and accumulate, and then they die. This does not mean that we should not save money.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
