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with the kind of money people have?
Dadashri: That is the very cause. If the money is pure, the mind will always remain pure. The wealth that has entered the home has been acquired through dishonest means and that is why it creates quarrels. That is why I had decided from a very young age that if possible I did not want any illicit money entering my home and if it did under certain circumstances, then it should be left in the business and should not enter the home at all. It has been sixty six years and not a penny of illicit money has entered my home and never has a conflict arisen in the home. From the very beginning we had decided that we would run the household within a certain budget. The business may make a profit of thousands of rupees but how much money would A. M. Patel make if he were to work for someone else? At the most, he would earn six hundred to seven hundred rupees a month. Success in business success depends on the merit karma. Our spending was limited to the amount of salary I would have earned as an employee and the rest of the money was left in the business. If the income tax office were to write to the business asking for money, I would just have to instruct them to pay off the debt from the money retained in the business. One can never tell what kind of an attack may come. And if the money were all spent, then an attack from the income tax office, will lead to a heart attack! Have we not seen these attacks come to people? How can you call this a life? What do you think? Do you think it is a mistake or not? This is the mistake that you have to destroy.
At Least Try The Experiment
At least decide that you do not want any conflicts. Do this for three days; what's wrong in trying the experiment?
life without Conflict
People experiment with fasting, they'll fast for three days for their health - so why not try this? Everyone in the household should get together and decide, 'We like what Dada is saying. Let us all make a decision to do away with conflicts.' Do this and see what happens.
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Religion Means No Conflicts
Wherever there is no conflicts and discord, there is the exact religion (dharma) of the Jain, the Vaishnav, and the Shaivite. Since there are conflicts in every home, where have all these religions gone?
If a person learns the art of living, whereby it reduces all conflicts from his worldly life, then it can be said that he has attained religion.
True dharma is to live life without conflicts. In India, only if one's own home becomes like heaven, can one even begin to talk about liberation, but not otherwise. The home may not be like heaven but at least it should come close to being one!
Your life should become free of conflicts. The home environment must be free from conflicts. Then only one should talk of liberation, not otherwise. Leave alone total freedom from conflicts, but one should at least experience some freedom from conflicts. And that is why the scriptures say, 'Where there is the slightest of conflict, there is no religion.' Inner harmony means no feelings of depression or elevation. No depression in the jail and no elevation in a palace. If your life becomes free of conflicts, know that you have come closer to liberation. You should feel some peace here and now. Everyone wants liberation because no one likes to be bound. When your life becomes free of conflicts,
