Aptavani 01

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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Use of the authority of the non-self leads to worries. What has been acquired in the foreign department (non-self) will remain in the foreign realm. You have acquired a wealth of cars, bungalow, factories, wife and children, which will have to be left behind when you leave. At the final station no power can save you. You will be allowed to carry forward only your merit and de-merit karma. In other words whatever wrong you do here will carry forward with you. The wealth you acquire through your wrong doings will be left behind but your liability for those actions will be carried forward. You will acquire a new body based on your actions and you will have to start all over again to repay your past life's debts. So you unfortunate souls! Better shape up from the start. There is so much bliss in your own homeland but you haven't seen it!
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When, even the hair on your head does not remain loyal to you, what else will? People keep grooming their hair with their hands all day long. But would they still like to run their fingers through the hair when it is cut off?
Worrying is an ego. Why does this child not have any worries? It is because he knows that he does not run everything and neither is he bothered about who does. People worry by merely comparing themselves with their neighbors. The neighbors have a car and we do not. The foolish man! How much does he need for his livelihood? Decide just once what your requirements are. For example, you need adequate food and water, a house to live in and enough money to run that household. This much you are bound to get. But you become jealous and disturbed if you come to know that your neighbor has a bank balance of ten thousand. This is how suffering starts. Foolish people, they invite their miseries themselves.
A landlord came to me and asked me how much a person needs to live life. He told me that he had a thousand acres of
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land, a bungalow, two cars and a significant bank balance. He asked me how much he should keep. I told him that everyone should assess his or her needs based on what the circumstances were when he or she was born. They can come to a decision about how much they need for the rest of their life based on whatever luxury they had at the time they were born. That is the standard guideline. Everything that you have in excess is poison and it will kill you.
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Enjoy What You Have
Lord Krishna has said:
"Enjoy what you have, do not worry about what you do not".
One day I was visiting a wealthy businessman in Ahmedabad. His wife had prepared a delicious meal. As the man and I sat down to eat, his wife said to him 'At least eat well today'. I asked her why she made such a comment and she replied that whenever her husband sat down to eat, it was just his physical body sitting at the table but his mind was always at his factory. He never enjoys his meals. Goodness you foolish man! At the present moment you have a meal in front of you, not your factory, why not enjoy your meal in peace? People have become so foolish they worry about their daughter's marriage even when the daughter is only four. Some wretched soul will be on his deathbed, gasping his last breath and all his relatives would have lit the lamps for the final farewell and yet he sobs worrying about his young daughter. His daughter tries to console him and tells him to be at peace and not worry about her anymore. He tells her that she would not understand such matters and in his mind he believes that she is only saying things to console him because she is not as clever as he. The foolish man - his intellect is such that no one would pay even a nickel for it!