In college we would get exam questions like “List the Causes Leading up to the Civil War.” Or, “What Caused the Great Depression of the 1930s?”

Although we would be graded according to our correct or incorrect answers, I always thought that these were questions without definite answers. Each discipline could give answers from its perspective so that you could have the differing viewpoints of an historian, a sociologist, a philosopher, a psychologist, an economist, and so forth.

It wasn’t until I had gotten deeper into the spiritual aspects of Yoga that I discovered the reasons given by enlightened masters.

Paramahansa Yogananda has stated

The earth would be a veritable heaven if nations as well as individuals would heed Jesus’ admonition to make God the primary aim of life. When people concentrate on political and business selfishness for national and personal accumulation of power and luxuries at the expense of others, the divine law of happiness and prosperity is broken, creating disorder and want in the family, the nation, the world. If the leaders of different nations, instead of extolling aggression and patriotic selfishness, turned the minds of their citizens toward the acquirement of inner peace, love of God and neighbor, and bliss of meditation, then material prosperity, health, and international harmony would automatically be added unto the spiritual treasures of the nations. (Excerpt from The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, Discourse 56 – commentary on the words of Jesus in Luke 12: 22-31) By Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda also gives advice for the creation of Prosperity that you can practice as an individual.

Those who seek prosperity for themselves alone are in the end bound to become poor, or to suffer from mental inharmony; but those who consider the whole world as their home, and who really care and work for group or world prosperity, activate astral forces that lead them ultimately to the place where they can find the individual prosperity that is legitimately theirs. This is a sure and secret law. – Self Realization Fellowship Lessons

For a lot more about understanding and dealing with this current crisis, take a look at Paramahansa Yogananda”s Guidance for These Times of Economic Crisis

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