Great Wealth

Wealth is an experience of spaciousness, a feeling of not being limited.

Artha or wealth is one of the goals of life according to yoga. Interestingly in another context, artha also means meaning. So what is wealth and what is the meaning of it? How does it manifest in its fullness as a lived experience in our life?

Here is a download that came one night when jet lag had me up and creative around Diwali in Mumbai this year.

• Expansiveness inside

• The ability to say no with ease and empathy  

• Awareness that is inclusive of self and others

• The inherent and simple call to share the wisdom you have harvested from life experiences 

• Relationships of respect free from obligation and transaction

• A relationship of simplicity, pleasure, and gratitude with food

• The ability to take responsibility without pressure

• The humility to ask ”How did I contribute to this problem/challenge” 

• The courage to stop grasping at a fixed idea of who you are, your worth, purpose, etc

• To know you are special and not, something and nothing. 

• The gift of being able to see the place of opposites as synchronous and welcome them as necessary for our growth. 

• The ability to acknowledge yourself and others without judgment.

• To sleep with ease knowing you are at peace with everyone in the world.

• To notice and smile at the need for validation again and again when it rises.

• To see money as energy, to enjoy it with trust, responsibility, pleasure, and appreciation

• To chip away every day at the hierarchies of status, authority, and conditioned beliefs that keep us in comparison.

• To be able to delight in the impact others are creating in their circles and the world without comparison. To be in awe of how consciousness expresses itself in such beautiful ways through beautiful people and experiences. 

• The ease of having a daily, regular, easeful poo. 

• To know that your happiness, time, and energy are your responsibility (others' happiness doesn’t depend on you nor yours on how others are with you, yet certainly you can contribute to joy and receive and share it with openness).

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