Where the mind is without money fear

Today is the day, like yesterday and like tomorrow, when you will hear a couple of words a lot.

This morning, I got this arrestingly misleading, three-colored message from my bank, asking me to move towards independence by taking a loan on my credit card and to increase my credit limit so that I can be free to spend more.

How can a loan, or spending more (simply because I can), put me on the path to financial freedom?

I went back to one poem that has stayed with me from my school days. The one that is most quoted when the tricolor is in season.

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Where the mind is without money fear

Where the mind is without money fear
And the head is held confidently high
Where finance knowledge is free and sought
Where the world has not been broken up into extremes
By birth, faith or narrow money walls
Where words speaking needs and dreams
Come out from the depth of truth
And are heard with true empathy
By those who know more and can advise with integrity
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards freedom
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of apps and influencer mirages
Where the mind is led forward by simple goals
Down the ever-vigilant path of thought and action
Into that heaven of finance freedom, my Father,
Please let us all awake.

Thank you my good friend Lovaii Navlakhi, for being a patient money teacher for so long.
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And apologies, Rabindranath Tagore, for twisting your precious words to send this message. 

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First published here.