Aptavani 01

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

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pragmatic approach to worldly interactions, as do the Vaniks. No one has all the attributes.
Where Does Goddess Laxmi, Goddess Of Wealth,
Reside? Goddess Laxmi, the Goddess of wealth says that she will reside in a home of a person who is sincere to one hundred persons. This means that such a home will have an abundance of wealth. The other homes will be rewarded only proportionately to their effort and hard work. What do we mean by sincerity? It means that one should know one's mind, how noble it is and to what extent it is so?
Money does not come through hard work. It comes only to those with open and generous minds. Do you think these wealthy businessmen work? No, they all have a generous mind. The businessmen enjoy their wealth but it is their staffs that do all the work.
Mind should be divine. Divine mind means to help even those who are ungrateful to help even those who cheat you and calls you a fool on top of that! When such people become victim of circumstances, only the divine-minded will help them. Those with divine minds bind a celestial life form in their coming life.
What does the intellect of a Vanik do? If there is only one blanket between you and him, he will grab it first and cover himself from head to toe and pretend to be asleep. He knows that you would ask for the blanket if he were awake. It is a mind like this that causes one to suffer a lot. This whole world is yours but you should know how to enjoy it with nobility. Kabir was a very wise man, he said : 'Eat, drink and be hospitable to others; thus do your duty, For upon leaving this world, nothing will accompany you."
To do your duty means to make preparation for liberation. It is the narrow mind that creates an obstacle to wealth. Why else would wealth be obstructed? The intellect of the Vanik is wise but it is very obstructive in the path of liberation.
Mind : Expansive Or Narrow If the mind were to calculate and balance accounts every day, the next day you would not be able to cook. Suppose you don't earn even a dime in your business, does that mean you should not eat the next day? What is this mind like? Let me explain. Suppose there is path five feet wide, you will catch burs on your clothes from the bushes that grow in the path. The same thing will happen on a two feet wide path and the same will happen if a path is so narrow that only one person can pass through at a time. The burs will sick to his clothes, but he will still manage to squeeze through. The mind knows which holes it has to escape through and it will squeeze its way through, no matter what the situation. It can even pass through two wires.
That is why we say Oh fool! Do not turn a royal mind into that of a beggar. If you do not have a flower to give, give even a petal but do not let your mind become a beggar. Depending upon circumstances, even a king may have to beg but does that mean that his mind has become beggarly? It will still remain noble and generous. The broader the mind, the greater is the freedom. The narrower the mind, the greater is the confinement.
It is like this, the direction the mind drags a person to, depends upon the kind of tubers his mind is made of. A miser has a tuber of greed; a benevolent person will have a tuber of benevolence. An ascetic will have a tuber of asceticism. A person who renounces will have a tuber of renunciation; it is this tuber that makes him renounce and yet he says, 'I renounced'. You unfortunate man! You just made your tuber larger! When will this tuber ever dissolve? How will you get liberation? These