flame

Mr.P.K.Swamy was born in a small village in Tamil Nadu, India. He grew up his entire childhood in poverty. He couldn’t afford any higher education so he managed to do his diploma in civil engineering with poor grade, worked for Larson and Toubro for a while. Then he did many things by himself and worked harder and harder only to scramble through life. And this is how he says his financial and emotional life went by: "Study, work hard and get rich', I was told. I did all that only to please others and make them rich. I was totally unaware that I was doing what people thought I should do and getting them what they thought they should get. I worked. They made money. I slogged, They lived.

People looked at me and said, 'Never give up'. I was back on the 'success' ladder, highly recharged. The faster I climbed, the more it hurt and the more I bought 'positive mental attitude' pills. I reached the top rung of the ladder only to see that it was leaning against the wrong wall. I mistook all the warning pains on the ladder for signs of growth. After trading most of my life for money I managed to make enough money, but it cost me those I wanted to spend and celebrate it with-- my root, my family. Sadly enough, I can’t get them back. It is too late... I fed and empowered those who mattered the least at the expense of those who mattered the very most. And I lost both. I lost those who mattered most because I was unavailable for them. I lost those who mattered the least too because they neither needed me nor my money any more. This is what you get…, This is what happens to you when you feed the wrong people. This is what you become when you ask others how they think you should conduct your life."

What Mr. Swamy often tells people especially the educated and hard working people is this: "If you want to be rich and happy stop making others rich. Money, freedom to do what you want to do and when come to your door. Why do you waste 60-70 years of your life working?"

"Joy is our nature, not something to be acquired. Prosperity is no big deal. It is only poverty, financial mess and frustration that are tough. And they don’t come for free. It takes a lot of 'positive' attitude, hard work, motivation, confidence, perseverance, skill, money and borrowed knowledge," declares Mr. Swamy.