Lakshmi – The goddess of wealth and the thirst for her

In continuation of the ideas from my previous post, I take the liberty of writing some more.

We worship Lakshmi in many forms and strive to get more of her. In fact our thirst for Lakshmi never ends.

The question is how do we get Lakshmi? History tells us that you need to churn the ocean to get Lakshmi. Churn resembles hard work and also collaboration of the driving forces. The collaboration is to be understood from the perspective that there are two different opposing forces which work in tandem to give some and pull some fashion. The competition between the groups, the churn of ideas, and the dilemma in mind is fruitful till the time the forces work in tandem to produce greater goods for the organization and decision making. Consider the benefits for the consumers in the market when two product companies compete to enhance their shares.

However, there is one more point to the churn. When Lakshmi came out of the Kshirasagar, she immediately went to Sri Vishnu overlooking the handsome gods or powerful demons. This tells that though hardwork is important to realize Lakshmi, an innate knowledge of the purpose is even more important to hold Lakshmi by your side. What we need to inculcate in ourselves is the knowledge of self and work towards the attainment of the wisdom to understand the purpose.

Remember – being an Indra you may be the king, but will be worried for life – you would always run after Lakshmi but she'll run from you. Being a Vishnu, Lakshmi walks towards you – you help solve issues getting involved but not being consumed by them. Being a Shiva, you renounce Lakshmi – you still solve issues but neither get involved nor take part in anything.

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