The Power of Right Thinking Leads to Financial Success!
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f you want to be financially successful, then profusely infuse your mind with the thoughts of prosperity. Do not think that you are living in poverty, impoverishment, and wretchedness. The worst thing in the world is the thought of being miserable. When paucity enters one’s thoughts, he always cries for luck, even on being wealthy. The inauspicious thoughts of poverty prevent us from being prosperous and keep us stuck in the state of poverty. You were not born on earth to live in an inferior state of poverty, misery, or forlornness. You were not born to be a slave only for a handful of grain or clothes. Why do the poor always remain in a state of impoverishment? The chief reason for this is that they destroy their higher aspirations, pious superior presumptions, healthy and enthusiastic thoughts, and submerge into lethargy and imprudence, making their heart constricted, petty, loveless, and desperate. When invaded with marginal poverty, life comes to a standstill, progress is obstructed, and the person becomes incapacitated beneath a load of debt. He even finds it difficult to upkeep his glory and self-respect. Those with poverty-stricken thoughts have been seen to grow old before time. Children born in low-income families develop such complex mental knots of poverty in their subconscious mind that they cannot achieve anything high or superior in life. Poverty causes lotus-like fresh faces to lose their luster and destroys even the supreme desires. This distressed mental state of poverty is enough to crush the personality. Millions of people are immersed in the pit of this frivolousness. Financial success also requires a state of mind, caliber, and
striving attitude. Therefore, to invoke Goddess Lakshmi, one needs certain mental tendencies for worshiping her. On the occasion of Lakshmi Puja of Deepawali, we sweep, clean, paint, and decorate our homes. At the same time, we adorn ourselves with new clothes and ornaments. A similar process needs to be followed in the mental realm for worshiping her. More clearly, it means that one should use the broom of prudence to clean the webs of poverty, meanness, narrowness, and debt from every corner of the mind and paint the mind with the brightness of optimism. Further, the blissful pictures of joy, hope, enthusiasm, happiness, humor, bliss, and cheerfulness should be affixed in the mental house. Then, one should pray to the Goddess of Wealth according to the rules of diligence and frugality. In this way, we will attain financial success. The greatest of all the skills is the one which teaches us to clean the mind of malefic and evil thoughts. It is never the desire of our Supreme Father, the Almighty, that we remain the slaves of others from the financial
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet. - Anne Frank AKHAND JYOTI
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