A Practical Problem posted to me personaly by my friend.

“We can limit our desires but how can we limit our family members’ desires. Their desires starts our desire and even we feel guilty of not satisfying their desires due to lack of money and we start running for it.”

The only answer is correct information, knowledge and wisdom which when develops in any person he or she can manage the desires for objects of the word.

When a person has developed good understanding of ills of watching TV, watching movies in theater, buying new clothes and jewelry etc. in every month, in terms of wastage of time, money and electricity etc., then even a TV may be lying in his room still he will not watch it or there is lot of money available with him to spend. This is a practical real life situation and not an imaginary story, as I see theses kinds of person every day. It is becasue they have understood the meaning of life and devote most of thire time in activities which are helpful in achieveing theire obejctive of life.

Thus until the person and the family members have developed such kind of understanding the problem will persist.

The best practice will be to talk about frequently the aspects of life as to what is our aim of life and how we can archive it. Gradually the mind set can and will change and people will stop making any desires.

To stat with, the only the answer is that it may be decided in the family that we should spend max of 90% of our total earning and at least 10% we must save for future, unforeseen needs.

If one has truly understood the objective of life, that is, to please the Supreme LORD by worship and meditation, which can only be successful possible when our attention is focused on HIM and no other thoughts come in our mind, there will be little problem in following this kind of life style.