Who is a Rich Man? || Acharya Prashant

You go to a place like Vietnam, you hand over Indian currency to them and you get a large number of units of their currency. Does that make you rich? No. Why? Because others will be having even greater number of units of their currency.

Richness is not about what you have. Richness is about what you have with respect to the others. That’s the whole philosophy. Okay? You are a rich man because you have loads of money. Let’s say the entire stockpile is accumulated here. Right? This does not make me rich. Please understand what makes me rich is the fact that you honor this currency.

You remember the demonetization in India. So you make me rich not my money. Suppose I have all my cash deposited here. But all of you here refuse to acknowledge this currency. Am I rich anymore? So my money does not make me rich. You make me rich. I am nobody on my own. Hence I’ll have to prove things to the world all the time and be afraid all the time of the world and be aggressive and cunning. It’s it’s such a lovely thing. The beggar makes the rich man rich. I am the rich man.

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