What does living as a trustee mean?
First of all it means a complete change of consciousness. The idea that I own anything at all is an illusion. How can a tiny point of energy own anything.
I don’t even own my own body. Nothing is mine. Everything belongs to God and I am just entrusted to look after whatever is near me.
In many languages there is no word for ownership, but everyone is entrusted to take care of certain things. I have to take good care of my body, feed it with healthy food, keep it washed and exercised, but it doesn’t belong to me.
Neither do my children or my spouse belong to me. I have to care for them, but remove all feeling that they are mine. I have to look after the space I’m living in and keep it clean and look after the car that I drive and keep it in good running condition, but it’s not mine.
Everything is God’s and I am a trustee for God. Then if something goes away for any reason, it’s no big deal. I didn’t own it in the first place.
If the wealth that I have belongs to God, then shouldn’t I be using it in God’s service and for the benefit of all and not for personal reasons of greed? And if I use it wrongly, then won’t there be karmic consequence?
The whole world has been using money wrongly, using it for personal greed. All of the advertising on T.V. is promoting this. It’s a very impure world that we live it and to get yourself away from the influence of it you just have to purposely stop watching T.V., stop reading magazines, stop listening to the radio, move yourself away to whatever extent you need to to break yourself from the influence of it.
Everyone is addicted. To change this you have to run in the total opposite direction.
But, it is possible.
[Special guest writer Carol Biberstein makes her living as an artist, art teacher and Farmers’ Market Bread Lady in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. She has been a student of Raja Yoga meditation for 6 ½ years, has changed a lot from the inside outward, and expects to transform completely. She writes about deep spiritual matters to inspire others to transform their lives. All thanks goes to the Creator, the one who inspires the re-creation of the world!]
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