Life without Conflict

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

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losses.
to get trapped under a big rock, would you break the rock by hitting it with a hammer? No because that would crush your arm. Instead you would try to pry it out gently. If you use kashayas in your interactions, you will create vengeance and one vengeance will lead to endless vengeance. Vengeance is the basis of the world's existence; vengeance is the main cause.
Honesty - God's license. Questioner: Today if a person tries to do business honestly, his business incurs a loss, why is that?
Dadashri: When you do your work honestly you will have to face only one difficulty, but when you work dishonestly then you will have to face two difficulties. You will be able to break free of the difficulty you have to face because of your honesty, but it will be very hard to become free from difficulties resulting from your dishonesty. Honesty is the biggest license (of approval) from God and no one will be able to harass that person. Are you having thoughts about destroying that license?
Why Delight and Sorrow In Profit and Loss?
There is nothing to be gained in having anxieties about money. If you breathe a sigh of relief when you have some savings in the bank, then you will experience sorrow when that money goes away. There is nothing in this world worth depending upon, because everything is temporary
Ideal Business And Its Limits The best kind of business is one where there is no violence or harm against other living entity through the mind, speech and body. No one should get hurt from your business, but here grocers will sell their customers short; they will weigh the grains and then take some out. They have even learnt to adulterate their goods. A person who adulterates food for profit is doomed for the animal kingdom. Keep religious principles in your business otherwise degradation will set in.
Questioner: How much should a person expand his business?
If you do business with honesty your profits will be 66,616 and if you do it with dishonesty it will be 66,616. Which would you chose?
I have a big business but whenever our business receives an official letter from the Government, it is on the business, it is not on my head, because I associate both profit and loss to the business. I take home only the amount of money that I would make as a salaried employee. The remaining profit stays in the business account and so do the
Dadashri: Expand your business to the extent where it will let you get good sleep at night. And when you want to do away with it, then you will be able to do so. And in the process do not invite unnecessary difficulties.
Interest On Money Loaned Questioner: The scriptures prohibit one from charging interest.
Dadashri: Our scriptures have not raised an objection to interest but when a person's intentions turn towards interest then it becomes detrimental to him. There is no problem in