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Nature will appreciate that effort.
Question: What if we lack substance? We, in turn, may have borrowed money from someone and that person may be after us to repay the money back. What if that person is harassing not just me, but the whole family?
Answer: That is why the learned have forbidden such financial dealings. To set out to acquire wealth being dependent on someone else's money and then to declare oneself as bankrupt if that money is lost due to either some error or carelessness, is a Western perversity. It is not our culture. Yet, experiencing anger while collecting dues cannot be considered as one's duty when put in such a situation. One should then regret it. While contemplating, one should think, “I am burning sandalwood to generate burning pieces of coal” or “I am demolishing an entire palace to obtain one nail”.
O soul! You are not going to recover your amount till your obstacles are removed. Then why are you destroying your virtue of forgiveness by letting your anger overcome
you?
O soul! Be cautious and careful so that anger does not transform into enmity. Do not feel elated at seeing your debtor in trouble. Do not even, by mistake, seek the help of such people who would threaten your debtor with death. Pray to God for his welfare. One should contemplate each thought, each action.
Despite trying to collect the money, you may not succeed in getting it back. You get angry once, then twice, then over and over again. Anger is a feeling which escalates over time as one's work is not achieved. Soon the
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