Science of Money

SR No.: 007557
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 57
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 266 KB

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Science of Money
Science of Money
not do anything that will create shortage for others. Do not break the proportion of the distribution of wealth in a way that will cause shortage for others. Otherwise you will be liable for it. If money comes to you spontaneously, then you are not liable. You may get five thousand or even fifty thousand rupees spontaneously, but once it comes to you, you cannot detain it or obstruct it from leaving. What is the natural law of money? It says, 'Do not detain and hoard me. Circulate me. Give away as much as comes your way'. (47)
The money that is going to flow in cannot be changed. This is not going to be changed whether one becomes religious or evil. If he falls into evil deeds, it will be a waste of money and invite more suffering. If he turns religious and spends the money rightly, he will invite happiness and this may show him the path to liberation. The amount of money will not change.
To delve constantly about making money is a bad habit. It is like giving a daily steam bath to a person with daily fever. There is an initial temporary relief, so he becomes habituated to it. The fever will come down, but the cause of the fever has not been treated so that it returns every day. Likewise, running after money is futile. (45)
Money is a by-product. Do you worry whether your arms or legs will remain functional? No. Why not? Do we not need our limbs? We do, but it is not something we have to think about. In the same manner there is no need to think about money. If your arm hurts, you have to think about getting treatment for it but you do not have to worry about it. You should never be exclusively preoccupied with money. When you devote too much attention to money, you miss out on other important things in life. And it is not just preoccupation with money that is forbidden, but also preoccupation with women. If you become obsessed with women, you will become like a woman. If you become obsessed with money, then you will become restless. Money roams and so will you. One should never become obsessed with money. It is the highest raudradhyana (adverse internal meditation that hurts the person having it and also others around). It is not artadhyana (adverse meditation hurting only the person having it), because although a person may have food and everything else in his home, he still has expectations of more wealth. When a person runs after money, other people are deprived of their share of the wealth. Do
Obstacles to money will remain as long as you harbor the desire to earn it. When you become inattentive to money, it will come to you in abundance.
Is it not necessary to eat food? Is it not necessary to go to the toilet? Similarly money is necessary. Just as you are able to go to the bathroom without having to think about it, so will money come to you without you thinking about it. (48)
A wealthy landowner once came to me. He wanted to know how much wealth a person should accumulate. He told me he had about a thousand acres of land, a bungalow, two cars and a sizable bank balance. He wanted to know how much he should keep. I told him that every person should assess their needs based on what luxury he had at the time of his birth. That is the exact principle for happiness. Everything else falls in the category of excessiveness. Anything in excess is poisonous, and invites misery. (49)
Each person finds happiness in his or her own home. A man living in a hut will not find happiness in a bungalow and a man living in a bungalow will not find happiness in a hut. The reason behind this is what people bring forth within their receptacle of intellect (buddhi no ashay) from their past life. People will find or come across whatever they have brought forth within their