by Swami B.G. Narasingha
"Gold is Gold" is a short article written by Śrīla Narasiṅgha Mahārāja for blog, narasingha.net, on June 7th, 2011. Mahārāja speaks about the actual value of gold and how paper money has no true value.
A friend commented to me recently that the price of gold had gone very high. I responded by say, “No, I don’t think so. The price of gold is the same that it has always been. It takes one ounce of gold today to purchase one ounce of gold and that is the way it has always been.”
My friend looked at me as though I was being a little eccentric. “But,” said I, “If you are talking about buying gold with paper then you better have a bundle handy. For one ounce of 24K gold today cost $1545 USD. And if you want to purchase that gold with basmati rice then you will need about 1500 kilos of rice for one ounce of gold.”
Gold is gold — always has been, always will be. It is the paper that is becoming worthless, not the gold that is becoming expensive. Presently paper money is worth less than ever before in human history.
Two things to remember, as my Guru Mahārāja once said, “Gold is money, and cows and land are real wealth.”
More Articles by Swami B.G. Narasingha
A Brief Response to ‘Ratha Yatra in Navadvīpa’
“A Brief Response to ‘Ratha Yatra in Navadvīpa’” was written by Śrīla Narasiṅgha Mahārāja in November 2000. This was written after H.H. Bhaktivedānta Mādhava Mahārāja and his associates penned a response to ‘Ratha Yatra in Navadvipa’ - a previous article by Narasiṅgha Mahārāja. In this ‘Brief Response’, Śrīla Narasiṅgha Mahārāja questions some of the main points of the opposition and gives evidence from Śrīla Śrīdhara Mahārāja concerning the insults hurled at him by the opposition party.
Śrī Śrī Gaura Rādhā-Mādhava & the Temple of Misunderstanding
“Śrī Śrī Gaura Rādhā-Mādhava & the Temple of Misunderstanding” was written by Śrīla B.G. Narasiṅgha Mahārāja in November 2017. Mahārāja first gives a brief history of ancient Vaiṣṇava Deities, then explains the ontology of Gaura-Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, and goes on to explain how Iskcon has deviated from the original Deity concept that Śrīla Prabhupāda initially established in Māyāpura.
Visit to Śrī Raṅgam
’Visit to Śrī Raṅgam’ was written by Swami B.G. Narasingha and first published in Back To Godhead magazine on November 20th 1985. In this article Swami Narasingha talks about the history and significance of Śrī Raṅgam in relation to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s visit there in the year 1510.
