Economics and Spirituality || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 What shape the economics of a place takes depends on the value I accord to this object or that object.
00:08 Spirituality tells you what exactly is valuable in life.
00:12 Good spirituality is therefore good economics.
00:15 If you are not a spiritual person, then you will make all economically unwise decisions in your life.
00:21 As people do, we do not know what to purchase.
00:23 We do not know what really is valuable, even in the material domain.
00:27 How do you decide, for example, which car to purchase?
00:29 How do you decide whether you need to rent a house or buy it?
00:32 And if you are not wise enough, then you will end up buying a house
00:36 where a rented thing might have sufficed.
00:39 And you very well know what's the duration of the home loan EMI.
00:42 20 years.
00:42 Now for 20 years, you are in bondage.
00:45 It will look like a financial transaction.
00:47 But what has happened is actually a spiritually unwise decision.
00:51 You didn't know whether that house is really of great utility to you.
00:54 And why didn't you know that?
00:55 because you do not know who you are and therefore what you really need.