🌱 Why Should Anyone Recommend a Stock?
A few days back one subscriber asked –
“If you say nobody can predict what the stock markets will do in the short term, then how you are so sure about the future of stock “X__X”?”
It’s a valid question. Why should anyone recommend a stock?
In fact, if the markets work on equilibrium and for every buyer there exists a seller, then are all investors not fighting foolishly in a game of chance?
Why does anyone recommend, buy or sell a stock — or for that matter, expect anything?
The answer lies in human drive.
Drive to succeed; to be right; and to be better than the other.
✨ 5 Rules on How Spiritual Growth Can Make You a Better Investor
Rule 1: Your Time Will Not Be the Same. It Will Change.
Change is the only constant in this world.
Every person on this planet goes through cycles of good times and bad times. Money, pleasure, and comforts may be abundant in your good times — but sure enough, you will find yourself troubled by the world. If not today, then soon enough.
If you are feeling blessed today:
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Start putting some money aside, you will need it later.
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Start doing well for someone other than yourself, even a little. You will need those blessings later.
“Help someone in need. Commit to a good cause.”
In doing so, you’ll see that time is not the same for everyone. You’ll become grateful for how lucky you are — and you’ll stay connected with the one reality we always want to run away from:
Pain.
Rule 2: Surrender to the Divine – Really… You Know Very Little!
500 years ago we were sure that the earth was flat.
Today we are sure it is elliptical.
We think we know the truth.
But do we?
We are yet to understand an atom — the basic building block of everything.
We have no clue how we ended up on this planet or where we’ll go after we die.
We’ve sent rockets to Mars and Moon — yet:
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We don’t know how these planets came about.
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We don’t know how many such planets exist.
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We don’t know where the universe ends… or what lies beyond.
So —
Who are we to predict how stocks will behave?
Something that depends on the thoughts of many others just like us – ‘All Unsure’.
Indeed, we try.
Rule 3: Spiritualism Does Not Mean Renunciation of the World
Spiritual growth is not about undermining the importance of materialism.
Money is one of the most important things in today’s world.
And this isn’t going to change anytime soon.
We are people of desires and passion.
We have duties — to family, to society, and even to ourselves.
Spiritual growth will not directly help you make money or protect you from loss.
Those are part of conducting business.
But what it will do:
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Teach you how to deal with profits and losses alike.
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Remind you of the false nature of material wealth.
Most of us only realize this when the suffering has begun.
Those doing well today may find these principles ridiculous.
Those not doing well may find them valuable.
For those on the Spiritual path, these principles exist in everything they do.
Rule 4: You Can Never Attain 100% Success — But Keep Trying
Every decision we make — or rely on — is based on the likelihood of being right.
When someone is more right than others about something, people trust them in that sphere.
But nobody is always right.
Would you even want to be?
Think of it this way:
If one was always right, how long before the joy of effort disappears?
How long before followers feel lost, merely copying?
This is unlikely — we are all striving to outdo each other. That is the source of all energy.
Many find this confusing:
“If practice makes a man perfect… and nobody is perfect… then why practice?”
Think of perfection as zero — and yourself as a number.
No matter how many times you divide yourself, you’ll never reach zero.
But you’ll keep getting closer.
Try this principle for one month:
“The day you are 100% right in whatever you do, you will attain Moksha (or whatever else you wish for yourself).”
Rule 5: Be a Karma Yogi — Believe in the Discipline of Action
What is Discipline of Action?
Work towards your plans. Succeed or fail. Just don’t sit on them.
Nobody ever gets tired of working hard. Most people get tired because they have nothing to do.
So:
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Stay busy. Sleep like a log at night.
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Be free from greed and anger.
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Speak the truth, speak without fear.
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Be lovable, but free from lust.
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः। वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते॥
He whose mind is not troubled by sorrow, who does not rejoice upon achieving something pleasant, who is free from attachment, fear, and hatred — is a sage of steady wisdom.
The path to becoming a karma yogi is not easy.
But any effort in this direction will make you a better investor, and more importantly — a better person.
