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The ultimate treasure is Spiritual Treasure – and what is that?

When we die, we do not take anything with us. No cars, houses, money, titles, marriages, girlfriends, boyfriends… nothing. And this life goes by really fast, really quickly. So what is it that is most important? Many wise ones say (and the point of this message is to say): Inner Peace. The experience of our own inner peace is the ultimate spiritual treasure. It does not matter how much material success you have. If you are living a miserable life then so much gets wasted. It is easy for us to actually waste a lot of our life. Yes, our own life. And usually we are not even aware that we are doing that. There is a story that Swamiji tells. A person is walking along a river bank. This person is lost in an incessant stream of thinking. Thinking about projects, to do lists, people, tomorrow’s meeting, last week’s events at the office etc. And so this person is just strolling along the riverside thinking about things in the past and in the future. And this person is ...