MEMO FROM NARA...

 

Everyone in this world encounters the problem of too much in various situations. We know very well that anything more than optimum is always not desirable. But some of us do not agree with this statement because they want to reach the maximum, whether it is money, achievement, body strength or any other such things. Once a friend of mine asked me a pertinent question: why rich people go on amassing too much money, wealth, property etc.? What do they do with all those which they may not use by themselves? Yes, it is true that one does not need more than what he/she wants; but still some of us want more and more and they become greedier in possessing too much.

 

Of course, too much is always useless and sometimes dangerous too. But one thing is certain, that we should know our limit and try to enjoy what we have. Going for more is really a problem. Take for example; drinking of alcohol is ok if it is within the limit. If it is beyond the limit and too much drinking certainly affect our health and lead to an unhappy life.

 

Many of us are attracted by more attractive articles advertised in dailies and magazines and now in the internet regarding the improvement of health by consuming certain vitamins or other products required for improving health. I have seen a number of people around me bought such supplements, as they are called without prescription by a physician. In the long run, it became too much and the excess levels led to more complications. In fact, the sellers of the supplements give all details and side-effects in small prints which are invariably no one read seriously. If they do, many will not venture to consume such fancy supplements at all.

 

Too much wealth is one another thing which creates problems in family at later stage. Rich people try to plough in the profits they earn from one business into another business and thus generate more wealth. One of the positive things we learn from it is that those rich people in fact, provide opportunity for thousands of people jobs and thus help a number of families to earn their bread and live better.

 

On the other hand, the black money generated through private businesses brings pain to the rich people who are harassed by the law of the land. So they have to tackle the law in such a way that they can escape the strict rules and go for generating more and more black money which neither they use nor their family because they possess too much. Too much wealth has to be stored and protected. Sometimes certain banks help in this. Take for example a simple instance of offering one toy to a child to play as compared to a dozen toys which the child may not able to handle and use. The child tries to choose the best of the dozen and throw the rest of them. That is the way many men and women buy their costly dresses every time to fill up their wardrobe rather than using them daily. They too feel that problem of too much and try to select a few which they like to wear and leave the rest in the wardrobes or offer to others.

 

How to solve the problem of too much then? We feel that too much is always not desirable, but at the same time we continue to buy and collect too much. It appears that it’s an inherent character of human mind to go for too much without knowing what to do with them later on. Solving the problem of too much is very simple, but the adoption of the simple philosophy is very difficult for many. Most of our spiritual gurus and religions preach us to lead a simple life. It needs will-power to resist the desire for too much. For those who have more money in their pocket, it becomes too difficult to resist such desires. On the other hand those who do not have money cannot have the desires to have too much.

 

Therefore, our desires are the main causes for the problem of too much. Let us try to have much not too much and have limited or controlled desires to solve the problem of too much.