Money And Beauty Is The Language Of Society.

There is a beautiful saying: "A man with no money and a woman with no beauty see the world without illusion." Beautiful, right? But there is a cruel sentence hidden inside this idea. It talks about how idiotic society is. What happens when the things society uses to reward people are taken away? What happens when a man has no money? What happens when a woman does not fit society's idea of beauty? So, let us begin with money.

Let's say a man with money enters a room, and people call him successful, right? They may listen more carefully. They may respect his opinions before they even hear it. His confidence is called leadership. His mistakes are called experiences. Now, imagine the same man losing everything. Suddenly, the same confidence can be called arrogance. The same opinions are no longer interesting. The world has not necessarily changed. The man has changed his position inside the social game.

Let me give you my own example. I was a musician before. You know, when great musicians do mistakes while performing, it's called art. But when we did mistakes, it's called arrogance. We were not sincere enough to pay attention or be disciplined in music. You see how society thinks. As if I use a broken cello or a broken instrument, I'm poor. But if a great musician uses a broken instrument, it's art. How does that work? I'm not saying I'm sad or feeling bad about it. I'm just driving home a point here. And this is where the illusion becomes visible.

You see, money is not only paper, numbers, or property. Money is also a social language. It tells people how to treat people. If there is a man with a million rupees and a man with nothing, society often pretends that it judges them equally. It does not. Society is a big lie. We can test this very easily. Suppose two people walk into a restaurant. One arrives in an expensive car, the other arrives on foot because he cannot afford transportation. Before either person says a word, the world has already created a story. Even I created a story just now, right? One is assumed to be important, the other is assumed to be ordinary. Perhaps both are intelligent, perhaps both are kind, perhaps both are foolish. But the world does not wait for evidence. It sees the symbol first.

There's a beautiful saying: "However pure your intentions might be, the world will see only your actions. And however pure your actions might be, God will see only your intentions." Beautiful, right? I think I should make another talk on this. So, let me stick to the topic.

So, this is the strange comedy of human beings. We invent symbols, then bow before them. We create money, then allow money to tell us who deserves respect. A man without money can sometimes see this more clearly because he cannot comfortably participate in this illusion. He knows what it feels like to be ignored. He knows that some friendships become colder when there is nothing to offer. And this is the irony. I have seen a lot of relationships fail because the man is not able to provide enough. Money is the main thing that is driving all of us.

You see, we are living in a world such that if you want to do God's work, you need money. And even if you want to do devil's work, you need money. You see, people often say money does not matter while organizing their entire lives around it. They say happiness cannot be bought, then spend their lives buying things because they hope happiness is hiding inside them. A poor man may therefore discover something that a rich man can easily avoid. He may discover that much of society's respect is conditional. Not always, but often enough.

And now let us look at beauty. This is another beautiful thing. A woman who does not fit society's idea of beauty may experience another version of the same illusion. Beauty is strange because we like to pretend that it is completely personal. "Hey, nobody cares about your appearance. We care for character." We all love to say that, right? But if beauty were entirely personal, why would millions of people suddenly prefer the same features, the same body, the same clothes, the same hairstyle, the same faces? Why is it that we are not admiring the handsome faces of our grandfathers, but fall for Korean faces or Japanese faces? I'm not trying to say they are wrong. All that I'm trying to point out is how society behaves. It says face does not matter, but prioritizes certain faces, certain countries, certain culture, certain blah blah blah stuff, right? Because beauty is not only personal, it is also social conditioning.

From childhood, people are taught what is attractive. Certain faces are praised, certain bodies are praised. And then people spend years trying to become the image they were taught to desire. The woman who does not fit that image may discover something painful. She may discover that the world often looks at appearance before character. And let me tell this to all the women: a man who looks at your body before he looks at your beauty is not a man. He's still a boy.

You see, a beautiful person can enter a room and receive attention before saying anything. A person considered unattractive may enter the same room and remain almost invisible. Again, the person has not necessarily changed. The judgment has changed. And that teaches us something. Human beings often do not see reality directly. They see through filters. Money is one filter. Beauty is another filter. Age is another filter, and so on and so on. We rarely ask what is actually here. Instead, we ask: what does this person represent? How pathetic, idiotic, stupid creatures we are.