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in the tender but I know on what bases that tender is being filled. Nothing happens outside of these two laws.
I tell many people to bring me a completed tender but no one has done so. How can they complete one? It is all dependant upon merit-demerit karmas. Therefore, no matter how hard you try; you will lose even what you have if your demerit karmas unfold. So go home and relax and do a little work. And if it is time for your merit karmas to unfold, then what need is there for you to go out roaming? You will get what you are looking for sitting at home, without much effort. That is why I tell you not to complicate things by trying too hard in circumstances of both paap (unfolding of demerit karmas) as well as punya (unfolding of merit karmas). In both situations, you will get all that you are going to get by working normally. Therefore there is no need for anyone to complicate things by needlessly trying too hard. You just have to understand this.
One contractor came to me, when we were building a jetty in Jaighadh in 1968, and told me, 'I have a guru whom I visit regularly. Every year my business makes profit and it grows even though I do not wish for it. Is this because of the grace of my guru?' I told him, 'Don't believe that it is because of your guru's grace because if you lose money you will blame the guru and curse him.'
A guru is only a nimit (one of the evidences in the result; apparent doer) in all this; his blessing too is a nimit (one of the evidences unfolding). If the guru wants money for himself, he does not get even four pennies! The man then asked me what he should do, so I told him, "pray to Dadathe Lord within. Till then, the link of his punya (merit karmas) had been operating. An example of a link is if you pick up a card in total darkness, say you will pick up a card number four, then the next card you pick up will be a five, the next one would be a six, and so forth. They would come in a proper
order and people will compliment you. Similarly people around you will praise you for your success in your business. This link may carry on till one hundred and seven. But then it is going to change, so be careful and alert. Then when you pick up a card you will pull a fifty seven, then a three and then a hundred and eleven. People will call you a fool. Therefore, do not forsake the name of this 'Dada—the Self or else you will suffer a lot.
Some time later I returned to Mumbai from Jaighadh and the contractor forgot after a few days what I had told him. He suffered a heavy loss and both he and his wife tried to commit suicide by drinking pesticides. But he had so much punya that his brother, who happened to be a doctor, was able to save them in time. The man came to see me immediately. I told him,
From now on, take Dada's name and don't ever repeat what you did. After that he continued to take Dada's name, and all his paap (sin; demerit karmas) were washed-cleansed and everything settled down.
When you say, 'Dada', paap will not come near you. It will hover around you but it will not touch you. If you become lax-dose off from your awareness then it will affect you. It will not affect you in your sleep. If you fall asleep taking Dada's name and you wake up saying it, then you spent the time in between, being the Self.
'Mechanical' Chetan People of the world have no idea as to what is called Chetan (life energy, the Self) in all this. They consider the body to be the Chetan. They claim that the Chetan carries out all the activities. But the Chetan does not do anything. *Knowing' and 'seeing are its only functions. The rest is of the non-Self.
Who is doing the talking? It is the nischetan chetan (lifeless living element; inert consciousness); it is the mechanical
