God Or Mammon - Love or Profits
"The spiritual world and material world do not go well together." Srila Prabhupada "The realer the world, the greater the misery. The realer the Self, the greater the joy." - Lester Levenson "If the the time spent thinking about objects NOT the Self were spent inquiring into the Self, Self realization would be achieved very quickly." Ramana Maharshi "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." - Jesus [First, in my ignorance, I never knew what 'mammon' was. Finally, I looked it up. Mammon basically means wealth.] Okay, I think you get the picture here. There is a very common approach going on now that says I want to enjoy the world and have total spiritual realization. That is not an impossibility, the difficulty is, most people are not ready for that. In other words, once you have recognized the complete illuso