Abundance is a state of mind experienced as contentment, peace and harmony. Opulence is also a state of mind which triggers wishes and desires leading to possession of materials and money. While Abundance may be termed as spiritual, Opulence is material. In other words Abundance is 'Life' and Opulence is 'Living'.Abundance is intrinsic and opulence is incidental. Both the abundance and opulence can go together provided the individual is contemplatively conscious of the abundance even while pursuing the path of opulence. Possession of opulence alone cannot bring in the feeling of abundance. At the same time even without opulence one can feel abundance. Such a personality gives only secondary importance to opulence. When chance brings him money and materials in abundance, he accepts the same and in case, by another chance, the possessions are taken away from him, he doesn't mind it. His state of mind of contentment and peace (a sign of abundance) is never lost in either stage. Abundance is our true nature and opulence is only a dress put on it.
An ideal man lives a life of 'sacrifice' meaning thereby he distributes his abundance to the society at large and feels harmony with the socoety. He considers himself as a medium chosen by Lord to build in a 'unified society' thereby no one considers himself as separate, and every member of the society leads a life experiencing Peace, contentment and harmony. This is the goal all spiritual schools aim at and all religions strive for.
"Each for All and All for Each" should be the motto thereby 'each' merges with All' without a feeling of separatness. A feeling of contentment with what we have and a feeling of sacrifice with what we can, bring in Harmony with-out and Peace within.
Both Abundance and opulence, apparently opposite synthesize in the Supreme Truth which is beyond the conceptual dualities. Lord Vishnu with SriDevi and Bhoodevi (representing spiritual and material) standing on either side, is probably indicative of this truth. By remembering this truth one enriches his opulence with abundance.
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