Poverty for Yogis
No one is allowed to carry the physical currency and property to the world hereafter. However, one is accompanied there with the resultant psychic energy which was involved in the accumulation of the wealth. This means that someone who was criminally involved in the accumulation of affluence, may carry unwanted psychic energy which will prove to be destructive towards that person in a future life.
In contrast someone who was in need in the physical existence in his/her past life, but who avoided sordid activities, will carry through the afterlife, psychic energy which may cause him/her to be in a heavenly hereafter and then have sufficient money in the next physical life.
The calculation is that the underlying psychic behavior is the essential factor. Physical actions are only the shell which contains the motivational content. A pretty shell which contains questionable motivation, may result in dire consequences later. That would be hellish environments in the afterlife and dire circumstances in the next life.
Some people resent being placed in a poverty-stricken condition. One may be placed so by fate or by the government. Instead of not reacting to that imposed condition, one may be offended by it.
Once, in an astral encounter with a few persons whom I knew in the childhood years of this body, someone whom I knew at the time but who was born in a wealthy family, met me with another person who was wealthy just the same. The first person who was the senior of the two, instructed the other one, to give me a property which was owned by her family.
The situation was such that I could not refuse the gift. Just after the place was given, some time, some four years passed. Then the two persons returned to visit the place. When I heard they were coming, I hustled to prepared meals for them but found that I did not have much food.
I hurriedly spread some butter on some biscuits but I did not have enough butter. I spread only on some parts of the biscuits. Then I thought of offering a beverage. When I looked in the pantry which was a fridge-like cupboard, I discovered that I had just enough milk to fill small glasses.
Soon after I poured the milk, they arrived. I greeted them and took them to a crude wooded table, at which they sat. I served them. When they were done, they consumed the milk but ate only the parts of the biscuits which were buttered.
It was below their dignity to eat biscuits or parts of biscuits which were not elaborately buttered.
After this they left but with a dissatisfaction, feeling that the place was not as opulent as desired. They had no appreciation for poverty. It was offensive to them. For a yogin, these persons apply pressure to get the yogi to be more materialistic. If the yogi yields, it derails his effort for spiritual progress.
