Hari OM:

we do find lot of articles how to become rich? this is a counter article for those

First why should we become poor?

1) All great personalities say the wealth (particularly the attachement to it) is an obstacle towards spiritual progression

2) "Fear of becoming poor"- is continuously cultivated by media , by equating low standards of living, sickness, infamy, ignominy, social and family break downs, and all possible bad things with poverty. While low standard of living is a fact , all others are not directly related with poverty and hence not a must have for poor.

But because of this continuous programming the poor are becoming dejected and creating all those evils for themselves (make belive prohpecy) while the so called middle-class is working ever harder and harder so that they may not slip into that poverty.
But in spite of this hard working only 10-15% of world population is becoming richer while the remaining are slowly and steadily slipping into poverty. And the cost of energy, food and water is continuously increasing because of rampant misuse, so in short time, even if you have double phd and willing to work for 16 hours per day you won't be able to maintain your current standard of living.
so we need to come out of this vicious circle at the earliest possible time, if we have to progress spiritually. If there is no dependants then it can be a quick and instanenous action.

However if you have dependants and family this can't be done immediately because of social pressures that can be bought on the family members. Need to do it in a cautious and planned approach

1) Stop all gambling , particularly the stock market, only the super-intelligent brokers and entrepernurs had made money out of it, all average people had only lost there

2) Start a slow and steady reduction in standard of living so that by the time you are 50 or 60 your standard of living should be the same as the most poor in your country and you need no income to sustain that

3) Save the money created by the reduced standard of living(atleast a big part of it), rather than giving it in charity, since already all doctors, teachers, musicians and spiritual gurus had sold themselves to money we will need money for survival

4) Earn reasonable amount through honest means (some even good people are forced to do minor dishonest things because of the fear of becoming poor, don't do that, think about the spiritual cost versus the material benefit), spend as little as possible and save the rest.

5) Unfortunately the majority of the population will not understand the need for simple living since they are blinded by the temporary material prosperity, hyped up multiple times by the media. As thousands of people rush towards film industry blinded by the success of few, millions of people are chasing the elusive material propserity seeing the success of few.

6) They will realise their folly only when the current system crashes (can be due to energy, political, global warming, population explosion, pollution or a combination of these), but when that happens there may not be nothing much left to be done

7) All gurus and great persons give advice (like don't eat too much), but if we ignore that and continue , then nature does not give advice or warning but teaches a harsh corrective lesson (by forcing a high fever so that it is not at all possible to eat)

8) So being lucky enough to receive the advice and still not fallen in the fever we should start taking steps to escape from the system, however if we wait first for the society to change, it is highly proable the chance of escape reduces and the chance of falling increases

9) Remember always the name of the Lord is the highest benefit that can come to us and we should not loose it for any other benefit.