Māyā — The illusion of money
Since its invention, money has become the primary driver of our journey. Consciously or sub-consciously, we have become dependent on a system which has stripped us of our senses. We’ve been hallucinated and exalted by tricks of money in our life. Our personalities begin to mould through implications made under influence of importance of money. We struggle to earn and arrange for basic necessities, primary living. And then, greed creeps in. Silently attacking our behaviour, our priorities and even or conscience.
Money is outcome of civilisations progressing, evolving to survive. We were self sustained, necessities grew, greed grew. We are forgetting that how independent and capable we were, which paved way for our expansion. We rely on money to make us complete. Money empowered us to reach beyond our solar system, to look beyond time, beyond our existence. But money has costed us more than the costliest endeavour humans have made, Contentment. Money has sowed seeds of restlessness and desire in us. It is portrayed that money is the answer to anything we seek for. We are also obliged by fruits of money in the ways we communicate, share and create information.
Being part of a developing or developed economy, it seems impossible to us to imagine a day without relying on money or its derivatives. Wars have been fought, invasions and colonisations, just to satiate the want of more money. Power has been weaponised by money. The more money you have, the more your reach grows, the more influence you can create on people.
Money has become a part of our evolution, rather, it has helped us leap ahead of it. It is a universal bond of illusion in material world, just like consciousness balances the equation by being non-materialistic. Does this imply that a world without any money will not have a concept of consciousness? Or that the consciousness persists irrespective of what goes on in material world? Nothing matters and nothing is comparable to the importance of money for humans. Without money, we are like isolated tribes, untouched, disconnected from the world. Still, humans. Still surviving. Living life.
People have become restless and impatient, always in a hurry and rush, trying hard to make use of every passing second. This is what they call ‘fast life’ or ‘urban life’. We don’t bother taking a pause, to look at our journey, and validate with ourself, the price we are paying for earning that money. Debatable, everything is. Questioning is wired in our limbic brain. Curiosity is what kept us alive and evolving. But we seldom or never question ourself. Ego won’t let it happen.
Māyā, goes beyond money, surpassing the material world. It makes you a zombie. Human brain is astonishing, it cannot understand itself. One fine day you might end up with who am I? The pandora’s box of questions will engulf your identity and you will be stuck in a limbo. If, you are fortunate enough to come up with that question. Else, you, veiled and controlled by Māyā, will be spending your life like a zombie, eat to live, repeat. Infecting others into this infinite loop of satiation. We attack those who are looking for cure, a way out, who think different, act different. We’ve become intolerant to thoughts, fear the change, we’ve become slaves of Māyā.
We forsake the beauty in chaos, seeking after perfections, connections and answers. When situations or events goes awry, we sabotage everything that can help us to get back things to ‘normal’. We choose what we do and still regret the decisions, seeking excuses for our very own conscious decisions. Influenced by our sub-conscious mind, which has wandered in the fog of Māyā, our conscious mind reacts to every material stimuli. Responding, not reacting, is an example of controlled mind.
We see war of words, debates, arguments over every possible word in different media where information is exchanged. Internet has laid the foundation of The Great Ego Wars. Imagine a world where people could only use internet to gain knowledge, without getting involved or participating in senseless comments and abuses and hoaxes. It could be a fantasy world where we know the authors writing the content, and we reading them like books, sharing the thoughts personally. It becomes inevitable to speed up the process of information sharing. And the best way is to open up the playground and watch them devour themselves, falling beyond the very definition of humanity. Money empowered Ego more than anything else. Money paved its way into expansion of information, mutating the core of information itself. Misinformation is being force fed, subliminal targeting of sub-consciousness. And we think its all happening unknowingly, by fate or an act of God.
Māyā, māyā, māyā. The word itself has been making waves in every dialect, yet, people are so resilient about it. As they begin to learn more about it the more it pumps your Ego to control you back into its illusionary world. And then you stop.
