Greed and Need

The human being who is indulged in worldly pleasures offered by the market is really a hollow man, always trying to find peace and happiness among everything that market provides. One who is forced to purchase a number of automobile vehicles for his regular travel forgets the fact that he cannot use more than one vehicle at a particular time to reach a particular destination.This is what luxury means and such a luxurious life pattern compels everyone who has been trapped in it to speed more and to purchase more. According to the market economy, the hall mark of human existence is purchasing capacity. A God whose prime purpose is to support human purchasing capacity is the contribution of the market economy to religion. Now-a-days, it is sad to say that all religious customs and practices in action have this ‘pleasure factor’ hid behind. The Kerala Society is not an exception to the general rule shared by other societies world over. In religion, people believe in a God who can do miracles to make the devotees rich. God has not been conceived as a solace, even if one fails to get anything from the society. Here, God should be an active participant and He has been reduced to one of the ingredients of the pleasures to be attained from the world. Such a God has got the responsibility to satisfy the greed rather than the need. On the basis of the faith in God, who satisfies the greed, humans all over the world believe in gambling. Everyone expects an SMS from a known or an unknown quarter offering millions of dollars as price money for the work he/she has not done. Again, humans have cultivated a habit of believing in slogans which say that ‘you will get your invested money doubled within a short span of time’. That is, everyone wants to believe that somebody remains in mystery just to make them rich by hard work. Instead of earning something through hard work, the present day slogans make us believe that we will get everything without earning anything and the only thing we have to do is invest our money either with a firm or a person whose credibility is not known. Naturally, the world has become a fertile land of cheating. People are ready to get in it because they are greedy and they believe in the aphorism that greed is not bad. But here, they forget the simple fact that there is a ‘one to one’ correlation between hard work and earning. The moment we forget about hard work and think only of earning, we are in the world of maya because it conceals the fact that one can earn only through hard work and it projects that earning is possible without hard work. Hence, the market economy propagates a world of maya filled with cheating despair and resultant disappointments.