Autobiograpy of Gyani Purush A M Patel

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

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Autobiography of Gnani Purursh
and greed) and it is because of this that I allow others to deceive me. And I will continue to do so. Is there not fun in being deceived with this awareness? There are only a handful of people who will do so.
Questioner: There are no such people.
Dadashri: This was my principle from very young age. Otherwise it is not possible for anyone to deceive me and make a fool out of me. What was the outcome of my allowing others to deceive me deliberately? The brain became very strong. Even the brains of highly intellectual and learned judges cannot match it. The judges too would knowingly allow others to cheat them. When you do this, the power of your brain will reach to the top. But be careful, you should not attempt to experiment in this way. You have taken Gnan have you not? Such an experiment is to be conducted when a person does not have
Autobiography of Gnani Purush I told him that a person who wants to borrow money for his business would keep everything confidential but I did not want to borrow any money and if someone wants to give me the money let him do so openly. With me, everything is open to the sky. Therefore I would candidly tell people, "This year my business had a loss of twenty thousand rupees'. I would openly declare everything then there is no problem.
The Ego Is The Cause Of Worries Before Gnan, a senior construction inspector suddenly caused an unexpected loss of ten thousand rupees in our business. He rejected one of our finished projects. Today ten thousand rupees seem trivial but in those days it was a significant amount. This event had an impact on me to the point of lot of worries. But then I immediately found the answer from within. I asked myself, 'What is your share in this partnership?' Those days there were only two partners. I then analyzed everything further. There were two partners and only those two were named on the business papers and documents, but how many partners were there in reality? There was the two of us and then our wives and also my partner's sons and daughters. They were all partners in this, were they not? Then it dawned on me as to why I was the only one carrying the burden on my shoulders. Why was no one else was worrying about this set back? That day this thought saved me. Is it not true? Decrease Your Expectations Of Profit For Happiness
I have done all kinds of business contracts in my life. Amongst these I have also constructed jetties on the sea. I had made a decision that I would be satisfied with a profit of one hundred thousand rupees even when a contract would yield five
Gnan.
We have to knowingly allow ourselves to be deceived. But whom should you allow to do this? Let those with whom you have to deal with day in and day out deceive you. And you may also let a rare outsider do the same, but you have to have this understanding. The other person thinks he has fooled you and you know that he is the one who is a fool.
Open To Sky Policy in My Business
Questioner: Tell us more about your business. You keep telling us how to run ours.
Dadashri: Where am I going to find the time to talk about my business? What do I have to do in my business?
In my business I would tell everything as it is. A man once asked me why I would talk so openly about my business.