09 January 2014 - QA 4

Gurudev, is money bad or are we bad? When we have money then greed also comes. What should our relationship with money be?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Neither money is bad nor are you. Don’t treat anything or anyone as bad – not money and not oneself. If you want to be greedy, be greedy for seva (service). If you treat it as bad, then you will be stuck. Nothing is bad.
Why do you blame? In our country, money is treated as Lakshmi (goddess of wealth), Lakshmi certainly isn’t bad.