Greed is contained in the human tendency. Wealth is its support. The place where greed increases or decreases is the human heart. That is, the consciousness itself. To claim wealth that is unearned or obtained without effort as one's own, and the inability to utilize even the wealth that has come to one for one's own welfare where appropriate, What is the difference between ambition and greed? Should there be ambition or not? What? Ambition has a purpose. Greed has no purpose. It keeps accumulating without purpose. What do you say? In ambition, one is ready to work hard. There is no purpose. From where I am, I want to go up. From the place where I am, I want to go up. That is called ambition. But what kind? By paying the price. I want to go by paying the price. If this is the price to be paid, I will pay it, I want to go. If I want to become a sadhu like Muktanand Swami, and if I have to do this, I will do it and become one. Then that is called ambition. And one who does not have ambition, is called worthless. He is called worthless. But What is called greed? Is a greedy person not ambitious? That I want to be a billionaire. I want to be like Bill Gates. Is that not ambition? Is it not ambition? He wants to become it overnight. He wants to become it without shedding sweat. He does not want to do anything like what Bill Gates did. And he wants equivalent respect. What is called ambition and what is called a blabbermouth? What is the difference between the two? I am a blabbermouth. And I have ambition. What is it called? What? Tell me. Do you have any ambition or not? Or are you a blabbermouth? Are you neither of the two? Or are you fully satisfied? Or maybe you have all three. One who is fully satisfied, like Purnaprakash Swami, he has no blabber... If he is fully satisfied, he is not a blabbermouth. And either he is a blabbermouth or he has ambition. So what do you say? What? Swami ji, does anything apply to you or nothing at all? Above, what did he say? What, brother Swami ji, what do you say? Dhiraj Swami ji. Ambition is weak. What? Ambition is weak. Weak, weak. A blabbermouth is strong. So if someone's ambition becomes strong? Then does he fall into the category of a blabbermouth? The stronger they are, the more blabbermouths. And the weak ones are ambitious. That's how it is, right? How is it? Vishuddh Swami ji, is what Swami ji says true? What? Whatever you say, he will criticize it. What is the difference between ambition and a blabbermouth? You have only come to listen, no one has come to speak. Vishwamangal Swami speaks for an hour, so I don't want to go to him. He starts giving the answer immediately, but it takes an hour. So what do you say? Should there be ambition or should there not be? Should one be a blabbermouth or not? One should not be. Then we have to make a difference that this should not be and this should be. If one wants to achieve by paying the price and making effort, then it is ambition. If one wants to get it for free, but still wants to get it. That desire does not leave from within. That taste for it does not leave from within. He does not want to work hard, does not want to learn anything, does not want to improve anything, and still wants it. To get it by boasting. Then he is called a blabbermouth. Then he is got it by boasting. So the biggest boast is that if this is Hyderabad, then it is mine. That is, if he got it by boasting, then he is called a blabbermouth. What is called greed? And what is called greedlessness? All those sages, "Veda aham etam purusham mahantam adityavarnam tamasah parastat," all of them One sage said, "I saw this," and the other said, "I saw this." So, sages, tell me. If there is a tendency to accumulate but no plan to use it, then that is greed. There is no satisfaction. There are types of greed. What is greed like after getting it? And what is greed like before getting it? So, the stages of greed are different. After getting it, even if he gets it, he is not satisfied. Ambition has a deadline. I want to be like this. I want to be a billionaire. After becoming that, if another greed arises, that is a different matter. But if he is ambitious, and if he has another ambition, that is a different matter. But the other one has no joy at all in what he has. And he has no attention on it at all. There is no focus on it at all. He has anxiety, burning, blabbering, and all that for what he doesn't have. So that is called greed. Desiring to get a lot is not all greed. If your need is great, then get more. And if your ambition is great, then get more. But get it in the right way. If it happens this way, then get it accordingly, work hard. In greed and in a blabbermouth, both... a blabbermouth makes more noise, if there is greed, he remains quiet. A blabbermouth blabbers, blabber, blabber, blabber, blabber, he does not remain quiet. So wherever he is, he... Greed does not show itself. When greed occurs, it goes deep down. No one should know that he has greed. Greed is hidden, isn't it? It is not done in public, does anyone say, "Brother, I have greed, I have greed"? "I have no greed at all, I am greedless." Everyone claims so. And a blabbermouth cannot remain hidden, right? That's all. Otherwise, a blabbermouth and greed are both called the same. A blabbermouth can be about anything, and greed is particular. A blabbermouth for money is greed. Then there might be some other blabbermouth, a blabbermouth for respect. So blabbermouth applies everywhere. Greed does not apply everywhere. To claim wealth that is unearned or obtained without effort as one's own, and the inability to utilize even the wealth that has come to one for one's own welfare where appropriate, is called greed. After it comes, if he cannot make full use of it, then that is called greed. If he doesn't have it, and desires to take what is unearned, that is also called greed. And the inability to utilize even the wealth that has come to one for one's own welfare where appropriate, is called greed. Accumulation is pure greed. Someone has such a big business, and to run that business, five crores a year is needed. So does five crores mean greed? Or if he doesn't need it, and he got five crores, and he makes good use of it for his own welfare, for others' welfare, and in the service of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → This Warren Buffett kept one percent of his wealth and spent 99 percent on philanthropy. 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