I’m struggling with money, but I’ve heard that we choose what we have in life. I know I didn’t choose this, so why is it happening?

If you are struggling with money, you are enjoying the struggle. You will feel abundant with your struggles! There is no such thing as struggling with money; if you want to have struggles you will have struggles; if you want to have money you will have money. Decide.

Why would anyone choose poverty?

In poverty, you feel free from all responsibilities, so you cherish the “poor” lie. When it actually lands on you, you say “no, this is not what I wanted!” WIthout knowing what is to come, you entertain a thought current, then after attracting it, you think, “Oh God, I missed it!” Please understand, Universe is intelligent and compassionate, it gives you only what you ask for, never anything else.

Is it better to be spiritual and poor than wealthy and materialistic?

Because you don’t have wealth, you console yourself by saying you are spiritual; you not having that does not mean you have this! Some people having that do not have this, but just not having that does not mean you have this. Mahadeva may be wearing rudraksha, but that does not mean He is not having all the diamonds and gems!

Please be informed properly, do not try to console yourself by saying, “I may not have wealth, but I am spiritual,” because there, nobody can challenge you and everyone tries to console you. False consolations are what I call feeling stuck in life.

Understand, if you think of yourself as a good person and a seeker, and you’re challenged or struggling to make your financial abundance, if you’re not able to make that into reality, be very clear, you are just living with false consolations, you are stuck, you just need a strong awakening. Remember you are sick and broke, not seeking.

How should we connect with Lakshmi to get into her flow of abundance?

Do not connect with Lakshmi as an energy, connect with her as a being who attends to your call. The moment you request her, she attends to you! Please understand, gods and goddesses are Beings. Independent intelligence. Connect with Goddess Lakshmi as a Being who resides eternally in Vaikunta, but who is constantly available for your prayers and requests, calls, just out of her sheer compassion. And, do not worry about your past failures; forget about them.

Now I am setting the right context and initiating all of you: daily, respond to people who call you. And, I am initiating all of you: relate with Her as a living, ever-powerful, ever-intelligent, being. Ever compassionate, ever showering, being. Relate with her from this context; simply she will respond to you. Simply she will shower you. And she herself will guide you even to clean up the mess you created in your Muscle Memory and Bio Memory. She will love to support you, to clean you up, and shower you with wealth, because she is independent intelligence!

I tell you, relate, connect, with Gods and Goddesses of Sanatana Hindu Dharma as Beings! They may have philosophical meaning, an ideology for which they are standing, but they are not just ideology along! I may be standing for Dharma, but I am not Dharma alone! I am independent intelligence standing for Dharma; Lakshmi is independent intelligence standing for the ideology of wealth. Don’t reduce the Lakshmi to just some energy and concept. Hinduism is not just cultural identity, it is spiritual, religious, cultural, and more, identity.

Should we give more to get more; will giving one crore make us wealthy?

Giving one crore does not make somebody wealthier; somebody who feels wealthy gives one crore. Understand, abundance is the confidence they have on themself and their existence; they know they have the power to manifest as much as they want, so they go on sharing. Breathing out so they can breathe in. They know they can breathe in, that is why they breathe out! They share because they know they can generate, they know they can create, they know they can manifest.

Understand, if you are 24 and you feel you can build muscles, you will do it; it is not belief, it is reality. Same way, I give people the experience they can manifest wealth, so they naturally know they can give. I make people feel they can breathe in, so they breathe out. Knowing you can breathe in so you breathe out is complete ecstasy!