Your whole effort is not to look at this fact, because this is very painful. The more you accumulate, the more you become aware that you are empty, your hands are empty money is with you but you have lost yourself. You go on throwing things into it but they never touch your inner emptiness. And there is never fulfillment because money cannot fulfill the soul the soul remains empty, the inner remains a void. But a man after money can never rest because there is no end to it. There is a fulfillment when you can rest. There is no end to it.Ī man of love can rest. And this type of man is continuously busy he is never at rest, he cannot be, because there is always more and more to be accumulated. Love is concerned with persons, the money-oriented mind is concerned with things. His whole concern is about things, not about persons. He said, ‘I have heard that time is money, so the more of it the better!’ I have heard about one businessman who purchased one hundred clocks and put them all around his house. ‘Why are you wasting your time? Time is money!’-that’s what a businessman says. A businessman can never be a lover, and a businessman always thinks that lovers are a little crazy, they have gone nuts, they are not in their senses, they are doing nonsense. Love is a sharing, it is a giving away-not only what you possess, but what you are. The businessman-the type-cannot love, because love is the most anti-money phenomenon in the world.
If your son starts earning money, the son is valuable if your father is rich, then he is your father if he is poor, you would not like people to know that he is your father. Everything else is beside the point, his target is money. You cannot relate to a businessman, that is impossible: you cannot be a wife, you cannot be a husband, you cannot be a son, you cannot be a father to a businessman, because he relates only to money. The moment money is not there, the friendship disappears-it was never with you. No, he is only friendly with the money that you have. You cannot have a friendship with a businessman. Fifty percent of them have already left me, and the other fifty percent do not yet know that I have become poor.’Īll of them are going to leave, they were never with you. He was in misery and he was saying to his wife, ‘I believed that I had so many friends. Once it happened: A rich man became poor. If you lose your possessions he will not even look at you.
If he pays respect to you, he pays respect to your possessions, never to you. If you have money you are significant, if you don’t have money you are nobody. His measurement is money, he measures a man with money how much you have got, not who you are-that is meaningless.
Neither is life meaningful, nor death, only the season. The other said, ‘What! In the middle of the season?’ And one said to the other, ‘Have you heard that Sheik Fakhruddin, the clothier, died this morning?’ It was the peak of the season, of the year. I have heard that two businessmen met in a market. He can sell himself, he can lose himself, he can destroy his whole life, just to accumulate money. A businessman is one who is a utilitarian: poetry is meaningless, religion is meaningless, God is meaningless, because they cannot be converted into saleable objects, you cannot earn money through them. He thinks of money, possessions, but never of consciousness, because consciousness is not a commodity, it can neither be sold nor purchased, it is useless. He has completely forgotten himself, he is lost in the world. A businessman is one who is busy about nonsignificant things, who is busy about the trivial, who is busy about the outside, who is busy about things, commodities, but not about himself.
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