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have built bungalows; you are the only one who lives in a rented room.' And the man starts thinking, ‘Am I the one here who is doing something wrong? He really believes in his principles, he has faith that his principle is not wrong; that the principle gives happiness – he knows all of that. But when his wife tells him this, he thinks to himself, “I am making a mistake in not taking bribes.' That is when a negative intellect (buddhi) takes over and says, ‘Dear man, you have to do his work anyway, so what is wrong with accepting a bribe?' So then he creates the inner intent (bhaav), that one should accept bribes. So he tells the other person, 'I will get your work done.' And the other person says, “Sir, I will give you five hundred rupees. However, when the other person comes to give him the money, he is not able to accept it, he feels suffocation, and suffers as a result of external sources (upadhi). This is because in his previous life, he had done the pratishtha (instillation) of, 'It is wrong to accept a bribe, one should not accept a bribe.' Therefore, it does not allow him to accept the bribe. He may have told the man to bring the money. But the moment he takes the money in his hands, he trembles, and he is unable to touch it. So he cannot take a single penny; however, he has sown a new seed for the next life of, ‘I want to take bribes.' He has not taken anything in this lifetime (avatar), but he has sown a seed for the next lifetime. In this whole wide world, what kind of seed is man not planting? And how is he to know what he is going to get trapped in? Did you understand all that? Is it not an irrefutable principle (siddhant)? Is it not a systematic principle?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: Over here, their planning (yojana) lasts for five years. Within those five years, in the first year, they decide that in certain places they will construct dams, in some places they will do this, and in some places they will do this. They make these kinds of decisions. They then put it all down on paper and the entire drawing (blueprint) is prepared on paper. Once this
