This is a simple explanation of how we should view economics according to the principles of Vedic Dharma. First of all, the higher vision of Vedic understanding is that we see everything as the energy of the Supreme Being. If we can see the Divine in all of life, meaning in all beings, we must understand that there is a way of conducting business between each other that upholds and advances our perception of this. Conducting business or managing economics in a way that deliberately cheats or exploits others will harden our hearts and our sensitivity so that we become unable to perceive the Divine in all living beings and even in ourselves. Otherwise, if we see another person as only another object to exploit for our own benefit, then such a negative attitude and consciousness will only reflect back on us like a dark cancer waiting to infect us with our own just deserts. And if this spreads throughout society, the pitfalls become rampant.
The point is there must be integrity in all transactions and business relations. If we use the above mentioned principle, then by seeing the Divine in all living beings we must realize we are not merely doing business with another person, but we are also doing business with the Divine within that person. This means that the Supreme is also observing our every act, not only from within us but from within the person with whom we are dealing. If the relationship has integrity, then that is fine. We will continue in our spiritual development even while doing our business. But if there is dishonesty and cheating in our involvement, then the quick profits we make will only pave our way downward. This will not be helpful. So we must conduct ourselves, even in business, with the foundation of the Dharmic principles. These days we have easily seen that companies with power may produce various foods, drugs, beverages or devices that are said to be of great benefit or are healthy for us, or help us solve our problems with no side effects or unexpected problems. Yet time and time again we learn that different kinds of products have indeed been pushed on the public that have caused harmful side effects, much to the dismay, suffering and frustration of the people. The company or even our government may deny any such possibility of injury. However, you must always bear in mind that a story presented as factual from an entity or company whose purpose is power, control or profits is often a story not to be trusted. This was meant to be avoided in a truly Vedic society. For example, in today’s world, the use of paper currency, which only represents a value rather than being a tangible item like gold or silver coins, may be convenient to the user. But those in positions to set the value on such currency can also more easily manipulate it. This creates abstractions in the link between the paper representation and the actual gold it is supposed to be representing. At other times the combined confidence that people and governments place in a currency may fluctuate greatly, making it especially vulnerable to times of political upheaval or war. Such currency can then become completely worthless. The fluctuating character of this type of currency also helps separate society from nature. Nature requires balance in the environment to operate properly, while currency that only represents what is supposed to have tangible value is more easily manipulated and takes us away from such balance. It is the adjustments in currency and interest values which often create stressful fluctuations for the ordinary consumers and for the general mass of people. People who are most implicated in these fluctuations are less likely to advance economically as those who are in positions to claim profits from the same adjustments or manipulations in the markets and economy. This is the difference between those involved in the global monopoly game, which is artificially propped up, and those that depend on real value, such as the gold standard or genuine real estate values. In this way, the lack of a true gold-standard currency is based on falsehood because the currency does not accurately represent the reserved gold. Or it is disconnected from any standard at all and becomes fiat money, which is fake money. Because the money value is inflated, prices on commodities rise. The only way to reduce inflation and have an honest currency is to use that which has intrinsic value, such as when trading something of equal value as in bartering or using real currency like gold and silver coins. That is an honest system. Real prosperity flourishes on the natural gifts of nature, or God’s gifts to us. Villages and towns and their local economy will flourish when there is plenty of grains, vegetables, herbs, trees full of fruits, rivers flowing with fresh and clean water, and hills full of minerals. When this is the situation, there will be plenty for everyone. If society has sufficient natural resources in this way, then why should it endeavor for huge industrial complexes that require the labor of numerous men by sending them into dark factories where they spend their lives in exchange for inflated dollars, and then have to pay a sizable portion of their earnings for government taxes? Industry produces so many items that are in demand only because of the advertising they show to convince people that they need to purchase the item in order to be happy. Essentially, the more society depends on artificial necessities, the more vulnerable it becomes to artificial crises. Thus, civilization suffers and the economy slows whenever there is fear of the economic state of things, or when there is not enough oil, gas, electricity, or when the prices of such modern commodities become too high. When there is a loss of oil, gas, and other such necessities, or when there is an electrical blackout, so many activities are forced to stop. But these are only recent conditions of the past 100 years or so. These are not natural vulnerabilities. Plus, so many machines and appliances are but recent inventions, but now we have become so dependent on them that without them we think we can no longer function. Thus, people become trapped ever more deeply in the struggle to earn more money to buy more things that they are convinced they require to live happily and comfortably. In this way, they are tied and enslaved to a system whose goal is profits rather than really benefiting society. In such a system, humanity loses its sensitivity for their finer intellectual development and has no time and no taste for any spiritual pursuits, except possibly for the most elementary levels of moral standards. Today’s economic system is a means of keeping you under control, preoccupied by the bills you have to pay. This is an old system of stifling people’s ability to make choices, sometimes against the present establishment, policies, or whatever it might be. It limits your ability to choose options of various lifestyles or alternative ways of doing things. It limits your field of possibilities. How? By forcing you to confine yourself to a system wherein you work for the almighty dollar to pay for the basic necessities of life. And you often are usually forced to do this by working for the profit of others in whatever business or industry that will hire you. And even if you are your own boss or a professional like a doctor or lawyer, you still have to be licensed and work within the system under the fear of losing your license if you do not cooperate or act as they expect. In other words, the time you have to think about and engage in alternative lifestyles, higher levels of philosophical thought, alternative forms of government, or spiritual practice, is quite limited when you have to make sure you have the money to pay for everything you need to exist. And these may include money for the payments on your mortgage or rent, your phone bill, your heat, your food, your tax payments, your car payments, property and health insurance for the unexpected, your children’s care and education, your business license, and your electricity so that after a long and hard day at work when you want to simply come home and rest, you can do so with some pleasant or even brainless entertainment on your television. That can add up to a lot of money that you need to earn just to live. Then, by plugging into the media, like television, that becomes the trigger in your mind for the kind of material desires that you wish to achieve. What you see on television and other forms of media then becomes the motivator for your preoccupation for the standards and desires for what are often unnecessary needs and wants you feel you cannot live without. Then you are psychologically locked into the present modern economical system, working mostly for someone else’s profits, while getting a few things that make you feel you are accomplishing something. Yes, sir, you are trapped for your whole life. Anyway, that is how it works for most people in the world today. That is called the middle class, or consumer class. While the poorer class cannot even do what has just been described. For so many people, once they have a job that allows them to pay all of their bills and keep some apparent balance in their life, they do not want to change. They are afraid of change. They want to make sure they can continue with what they have. It is the path of so-called security… which often leads to stagnation rather than to one’s higher potential. This is what leads to the repetitious pattern that is often called "making a living but hardly living." Or it is having a JOB—Just Over Broke. But that is the nature of today’s economic system for most people. In this kind of economic system, it gives people opportunity for little else than the struggle to survive. This is why many people have to have two or even three jobs just to get by, under the fear that unless they have enough money to make all the payments they need to make, they may lose their house, or apartment, or car, or something else. There is an abundance of stress and anxiety in this kind of lifestyle, and some people begin to act in desperate ways, which leads to a rise in crime. It also keeps people away from attaining their spiritual potential, and society then becomes more godless and chaotic, misguided by leaders who either do not know what they are doing, or who purposefully keep people stifled by design. This is not the purpose of human existence. The point is, as I previously mentioned, the more dependent you become to artificial necessities, the more vulnerable you become to artificial crisis, which is the basis of what we have today. Let’s refer to one example, and that is years ago everything went on without the fiat money system that we have today. As it is now, the fiat money, which is not based on anything truly tangible, is falsely propped up until it cannot go on, like the pyramid scheme that it is, and then the media makes everyone think that everything will collapse without more centralization, more bank bail outs, and more financial contributions from participating countries to keep things afloat, based on the taxes that are forced out of the citizens to meet these debts and bail outs. Is this real? No, it is all fake. And that’s the only thing that will fail, that which is fake, that which is false. Everything else will continue. But this is the system that keeps you slaves to your limited choices, and to the elite, those far above the middle classes, who seem to make the decisions. Until the present system does collapse or change, and we can put something else in its place, we remain the slaves of those who keep this system going. The Vedic system, however, was for freeing people from this repetitive cycle of working for few rewards and unnecessary requirements. It was to free you to work for your main necessities while still having the time and energy to reach your higher potentials through contemplation and inquiry and spiritual development, without being forced to work for the profits of someone else. In the natural form of economy, which is the purpose of the Vedic system, the basic principle of economic development is land and its produce. Whoever controls land controls food. Whosoever controls food and fuel controls the world. This is why land should always be in the hands of local farmers, so everything is shared and all people can prosper. Once large industrial or national complexes take it, such large tracts of land are no longer in the hands of a local economy, but are controlled by large companies who have their own globalist concerns and plans for their own proceeds. Then land becomes another element to manipulate profits, resources, people, and even other communities and global markets. History has also shown that such companies are often connected with crooked politicians, or their networks that want more and more power. However, by developing the land properly for vegetable and grain production, society can solve its eating problems. By producing enough cotton, wood, minerals, and additional resources from the land, humanity can work out its economic problems without depending on an artificial economic or political system. Those who do become wealthy by honest means can more easily acknowledge his or her opulence as gifts from God. Thus, one’s business, if done morally, can be a way of invoking the principle of Dharma. Such gifts or blessings also come in the form of one’s own intelligence and ingenuity for devising wholesome ideas and needed products for the benefit of others, and from which one’s business will expand. Thus, without the blessings of God in every way, we cannot progress or be happy. All things, from wealth, health, good birth, beauty, good education, etc., are all examples of gifts from God. Therefore, we all must acknowledge our gratefulness, especially those who have become more successful. When a family or society offers such acknowledgment, their success and happiness can increase in a balanced and moral way. In conclusion to this line of thinking, we must recognize that one of the greatest forms of pollution in this world is that of competition--competition for position, power and money. It is natural to work at devising better ways of doing business and producing more effective products. Whoever has what is best will more likely succeed. But competition based on envy, jealousy, and deviousness, or simply for more money, makes individuals and companies resort to dishonorable means to get ahead, to get more market share, more customers, and ways of making products more cheaply. This also adds to social stress by forcing people to increasingly think in terms of growing profits and income, and lowering expenses in any way possible. This takes away from the peace in the world, and often adds to the pollution in the environment by using resources in less eco-friendly ways ( Stephan Knapp) KR IRS 30 3 24 On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 at 22:53, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote: > > > -- > *Mar*Addiction Multipliers as Employment Multipliers > > > > Ecology is the economics of God. It is the economics of nature, of the > Biosphere, based on nature’s symbiosis.Today; economics is based on > Antibiosis, pitting the humans into permanent adversarial position against > nature. We destroy nature routinely and call it economic life. > > We have today many governments which depend on liquor etc shops to tax and > carry on. And it will not be long when the Talibanism based on narcotic > marketing becomes economy. And kleptocracies, (Rule by Criminals, of > Criminals and for Criminals), need people as the zombie sycophants. > > People must be amenable to behaviours, needed by the criminal ruler. Even > today, we teach economics as Newtonian Mechanics, so that the economy can > be controlled as a machine with switches and dials, so that we accept the > destruction of nature, and actually applaud it as great development. The > basic emotional bond and emotional symbiosis of the human with nature, > shall be treated as unscientific and foolish, so that the people become > indifferent when whole forests are destroyed, rivers made extinct and air > toxic. The subject economics tied and bound with the ropes of Newtonian > mechanics, is the most destructive cult, destroying nature continuously > while the people become zombies,appalauding this poisoned ecology or > economics. > > Today, if I say that nature is a wonderful employment multiplier, where > employment and nature’s change form part of the natural rhythm, I will be > branded as a lunatic. We are totally indifferent to the fact that the very > economies in totality are getting based on liquor addiction and other > addictions. > > When we destroy nature, we destroy our macro body. That destruction has > now extended to the body as we see ourselves in, the visible body. And the > governments depend on the tax collection from that destruction. The > destruction multiplier has become employment multiplier. > > I taught Accountancy for about forty years, without realizing, that the > very paradigm of Accountancy has been perverted, into accounting to the > trader, whether the activity gives profit or loss to the trader only. The > subject is indifferent to the facts, that the activity of a Unit, has to be > accounted in terms of ecology, society, and environment mainly and that > profit or loss to the trader is a minor matter. In Accountancy we treat the > small edge of the tail as the body of the elephant. > > In many cities today, people are terror stricken when rains are > predicted.The destroyed rivers are sinking homes. Terror is becoming the > basic attitude---the terror of climate, which also is becoming the > employment multiplier. > > Please teach your kids in your homes that ecology is the Economics of > nature, of God. Employment does not simply mean bringing money to the home, > but it also means participation in nature’s symbiosis, in making all happy > in free, lush and thick nature, of the flora and the fauna. > > Today most organizations do not want to be accountable. You find only > websites and phone numbers and many, many icons but no email address. When > you try to contact on phone, you will be asked to press a specific button > which gives a taped answer. But you cannot get answer to what you really > want. Legal accountability is cleverly avoided. The organizations are > hiding, like criminals. > > YM > > Chat GPT > > Your message highlights the destructive nature of current economic > systems, which prioritize profit over the well-being of nature and society. > You argue that economics should be based on the principles of ecology, > emphasizing the interconnectedness of all living beings and the importance > of maintaining a harmonious relationship with nature. > > > > You criticize the current state of affairs where governments rely on > destructive industries like liquor sales for tax revenue, leading to a > cycle of addiction and environmental degradation. You suggest that true > employment should be about participating in nature's symbiosis and > contributing to a healthy ecosystem, rather than supporting industries that > harm the environment. > > > > You also raise concerns about the lack of accountability in modern > organizations, noting that many hide behind automated systems and avoid > direct contact with the public. This lack of transparency and > accountability further contributes to the disconnect between economic > activities and their impacts on the environment and society. > > > > Overall, your message calls for a reevaluation of our economic priorities > and a shift towards a more sustainable and ecologically conscious approach > to economics. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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