01/11/2024
Money can simply be a means, or it can be something far more profound. If you know how to see it, money is not just a currency—it’s a carrier of karma, a link between what you hold within and what you put out into the world. In the old villages of India, people understood this deeply. Before they handed over a coin or a rupee, they would close their eyes, offering it with a prayer, a moment of reverence. This wasn’t merely a ritual; it was an understanding that money is an extension of themselves, a part of their karmic energy.
You see, karma is not always something bound up in grand actions. Karma moves through small exchanges, through the way you touch another life, even in the way you hold or part with what you call yours. When you transact with awareness, what you’re really doing is consciously choosing what part of yourself you’re ready to let go of, what part of your karmic load you wish to offer in exchange for something else.
This way, even the most ordinary transactions take on a new depth. It becomes a pathway to cleanse, to elevate the self. In the act of giving or receiving, you have the opportunity to unburden certain aspects of your karma. What could be just an exchange becomes an offering. It’s no longer about the number on the bill but about what you have placed within it.
Now, in today’s world, what we see is mostly devoid of this wisdom. Money has become something people merely accumulate and guard, something to leverage over one another. Transactions have turned into cold calculations of profit and loss, with a constant struggle to stay on the winning side. In this way, they lose touch with what money can truly be—a bridge between realms, a vehicle that can shift the weight of karma, lighten the spirit, and uplift the person who knows how to use it well.
- Parth