Sai message for the day

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Price hike is a common experience everywhere. People find it

difficult to make both ends meet because of spiralling prices. We are

eager to know Swami's views on this issue of rising prices.

 

First of all you should know that man is more valuable than all the

wealth in the world. Prices have gone up as man has gone down in

human values. The day human values go up, the prices of commodities

will come down. In fact, properties like land, jewellery, money, and

houses, and physical comforts and conveniences have value only

because of man. Since man is utilizing them, they are valuable; if

not, they are useless.

 

For example, there is vast land available in a forest. It is very

cheap to buy and own land there. You can easily go in for a plot or a

site, whereas in cities like Bombay and Delhi, the cost of the land

is so high that it is not within the reach of the common man. To get

a plot of land there, even a small plot, costs a few lakhs. Why?

Because many reside in the city. It is thickly populated. Every inch

of land is fully utilised. But in a forest, hardly a few people live

and as such the value of land is low there. Who is then responsible

for the high cost of land? It is only man himself. If no one buys

silver and gold, would you still call them valuable? No. It is man

who makes the commodities, articles and properties either valuable or

valueless. Since man has lost his own value, prices of various

commodities have gone up. In order to bring down the prices, the

value of man should be raised high by practising human values.