Luang Phor Jaran Thittathammo
Devotee: “Luang Phor khrap, why am I so unlucky? I make an honest living, never swindled or cheated anyone.
But I am being bad-mouthed by others. As for the people who bad-mouth me, they are cheating others and having affairs, and yet they are rich and famous. Whereas I am poor, isn’t this called doing good but getting bad, and doing evil but getting good?”
LP Jaran: “Devotee, you shouldn’t equate goodness to wealth and badness to poverty. Because these are two different things altogether. I can assure you that doing good, you’ll get good, committing sins, you’ll get unwholesomeness.
People nowadays they value material objects more than spiritual things. So they use material objects and standards to gauge things. Hence they believe good people should become rich and bad people must become poor, isn’t that right?
That’s why society is in turmoil nowadays, because people are holding on to the wrong values. And people who become slaves of money may end up committing unwholesome acts because of wealth.
But do you believe it, when the Law of Kamma comes into play, even wealth cannot do anything to help you. We may have the opinion that we are able to buy everything with money, even buying off some people, but this is only possible in the human world.
In the next world, the money you have will be meaningless. People who commit evil must be reborn in the lower realms. Even if you try to take the money to bribe Yommaban (King Yama) to avoid punishment, it’ll be useless as money means nothing to him.
Therefore devotee, you need not be too upset saying that you have done good but why are you still poor, whereas there are many wicked people around who are wealthy. You do not need to be envious of them.
Let the kammic law perform its duty, and then you’ll understand that those who do evil, will suffer evil in return.”
Luang Phor Jaran Thittathammo
Wat Amphawan, Singburi Province
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11 March 2023
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