Abundance

Part One

The Yoga of Money

Yoga provides us with the greatest way to make and handle money, to give money its true value, and to use it to achieve success and happiness. I know how surprising this claim sounds. Indian spirituality is identified with renunciation and detachment from the world. Our typical image is of a white-­bearded hermit, meditating in a cave high in the Himalayas. But, in reality, Yoga isn t spiritual in the religious sense. Yoga is the science of consciousness.

When you know how consciousness actually behaves, you find that something startling happens: You change with it. Learning about anything else doesn t have this dramatic effect. You might be enthusiastic, even delighted, to learn about anything else ­history, geography, physics, etc. ­but you won t be changed on the inside; you won t experience the personal transformation caused by Yoga.

There is an immediate connection to money, strange as this seems at first glance. At the soul level, there is generosity of spirit. This manifests as the following:

    Infinite abundance

    Infinite possibilities

    Unlimited creativity

    Mercy, grace, and loving kindness

    Eternal love

    Boundless giving

These gifts are innate and human awareness is designed to express them. If you embody them in your own life, you are wealthy in the truest sense of the word. Measuring wealth by money alone is spiritually empty. (I know nothing about reggae music, but the great reggae musician Bob Marley spoke like a yogi when he said, Some people are so poor, all they have is money. )

To attain wealth of the lasting kind, the kind that gives your life meaning, value, and sustenance, base your daily existence on the generosity of spirit. Everything else you desire will follow of its own accord.

Once you make the connection between consciousness and money, you have stepped

Deepak Chopra, MD

An engaging guide meant to transform consciousness into wealth through yoga and meditation. Publishers Weekly