Return on Investment:
Normally when we hear a word, ROI or Return on Investment, first thing come to our mind is those financial things and money and all about wealth management or investment, isn’t it? But I want to see our whole life a journey of investments and the actual return of everything we do throughout.
What goes around comes around!
You reap what you sow.
Following Gita Slok is a perfect suit for the subject line.
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥ २-४७
In Roman scripts—
Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,
Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani
The meaning of this verse is:-
“You have the right to work only but never to its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction. ”
Further discussion:
Most of the things happen to you is a result of your past action(s). If you invest your time in doing good things you reap and taste good thing. You will not get mango fruits if you planted bitter plant like neem.
Our home is not really owned until we fully paid off the loan (mortgages) on it until then it is partially owned by Bank. So in order to get full ownership of your home, you need to work and earn money ethically and regularly so you can pay off your loan. But how does this reality actually affect the way we think and treat our possessions? Quite simply, when we begin to understand that nothing is really ours, we start to see what all we have today as resources to invest for tomorrow rather than toys or goodies to simply play and enjoy. All of these, not only does it affect our possessions this way, but it shall affect how we use our time, what thoughts we entertain, the prayers we choose during prayer time, and much more and so on.
If you nurture your kids early in their childhood on their character building and provide good quality education then later on you as parents will reap the fruits of time and money you invested in making up your children. Later on you will be compensated accordingly how you treated and nurtured your kids in bringing them up.
That’s understanding of Vedic system and regulations and a healthy attitude toward spiritual investment. We give the God what’s really His anyway as an investment of ours in the form of rewards and return; we’ll receive later on in our eternal retirement.
There’s simply no safer investment. Here on earth, insects destroy the things, thieves loot or rip us off, stock markets can crash, and our hard earned money gets wasted. But when you invest your quality time, money and skill, and treasure in the eternal, your investments have a precious divine return. None of what’s “ours” is really ours. It all belongs to God. So take what He lets you take, but don’t forget to invest it in His holy kingdom, and you’ll receive it back with compounded interest as you maximize your eternal rewards as big returns.
If you focus and work only on the outcome, you are less likely to achieve it. Instead, if you focus and work on the process, the outcome will take care of itself.
If you are not willing to work on creating the right investment process that suits or comforts you – and just rely on the readymade stuff available out there – you face a great probability of ending up with a bad outcome.
“Focus on the karma,” Krishna would tell you. “Don’t let the fruit be the purpose of your karma.”
Focusing on your investment process, and not the outcome, should be your goal.
Here is the payoff: Over the long term as time passes by, a good quality and thoughtful process delivers highly desirable results, and generates better, sweeter and more reliable outcomes.
It is a real discipline of our “Action”, this isn’t any secret, isn’t it?