Reside Deeper Within
Anyhow, artists, painters and poets, even though they live with less money, live with deep satisfaction, because their boundary is much bigger. For example, in a day, if you spend most of the time in the visualization layer, or the next layer that is the bliss layer, you will feel fulfilled. The time that you spend in the deepest layer, is what is going to give you the real fulfillment. Your fulfillment depends on that, not on the money which you make, or the car which you drive, or the house that you live in. All those things are not going to give you fulfillment.
For example, if you spend 10 hours in annamaya kosha and 10 hours in pranamaya, then only two to three hours, you will spend in manomaya, and no time at all in vignanamaya! Then automatically, you feel that your life is dull and dead. That is why, if you have too much of entertainment in the annamaya kosha, you may feel good on and off, but depression will be the basic thread of civilization for you. Look at all the civilizations which have too much entertainment in the annamaya kosha. Depression will be the basic thread of that civilization. I am not condemning anyone. I am only telling you some simple truths.
The average time per day that a person spends sitting in front of the television, has gone up to seven hours now, in Bharat. This is shocking. Actually, I didn't believe it when I read this report. I think in America, the average time is three and a half to four hours. One good thing is that, the majority of the population still does not have access to television in Bharat. The crowd which does not have access to television is safe. But that crowd is also reducing drastically, because now the government is giving free television!