There is a vast difference between yearning for money and making it a goal of your life or using money as a means to an end. The people in West were materialistic to the extent that they used money as a means to an end, never an end in itself as most Indians do.
This basic difference in approach of life differentiates Indians from people in West. People in West lived life on day-to-day basis. In the morning they were born and in the evening they died. In between lay a bubbling life full of gaiety, laugh and charm.
Comparatively Indians lived for a span of at least seven lives. If they drank, they drank so much that they were hauled to their houses by their friends. If they hoarded, they hoarded for many lives. In the lives of Indians… today never mattered! It was all, writ large on their faces.
Being materialistic does not mean becoming a slave for our lives. Life truly must be lived as do people in West. Eat, drink and be merry. Never worry about past or future but plan for everything. Comparatively Indians never plant but worried about past and future all the time.
Comparing the two civilizations… all homes in West had central heating and cooling. This increased their efficiency by minimum 10 times. To sustain they produced cheaper electricity! Comparatively in India electricity was almost 10 times costly if we pared both the currencies. The concept of centralized heating and cooling did not exist in India because it was totally unaffordable even by middle-class. What a waste of resources and precious human time.
If people in West were materialistic then people all over world must emulate them.
By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 – (Ref. 161110)
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