Science of Money

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

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never been any clashes in my home. We had decided from the very beginning that we would run the household within a certain budget. The business may make hundreds of thousands of rupees but if this Ambalal Patel were to work for someone, how much would he earn? He would earn anywhere between six to seven hundred rupees at the most. Business is a play of merit and demerit karma and so we should spend only the amount I would draw as a salary if I were employed elsewhere. The rest of the money would be retained in the business for unforeseen events like taxes. One never knows when an 'attack' from an income tax authority will come and if all the money is spent, the attack from the tax office will cause you to have a heart attack! Have such attacks not entered all the homes? How can we call this life? What do you think? Is this not a mistake? We need to break this mistake.
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Let money flow in naturally. Do not use it as a support. Never rest and think that it will be there forever. Proceed with caution of this awareness so that when it leaves you will not suffer.
Questioner: Describe the fragrance of pure money, please.
Dadashri: Pure money will never bring a trace of stress or tension. There will be enough money in the home. Your mind will be at peace even if someone announces that sugar is going to be rationed starting the next day. Nothing will cause stress or tension to you in the home. The exsisting merit karma effect is such that your actions and speech will be pleasant towards everyone around you. It will never incite worries in you about how you will earn money.
The money we have around at the moment is from exsisting demerit karma effect. This is impure kind money. It is not worthy of being called money. It incites sinful thoughts and preoccupation of 'How can I earn more and accumulate more'. This in itself is a
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Some people ask me, 'Did the landlords in the past have such pure money?' Yes, they did. Their money accumulated naturally. They did not have to accumulate it whereas people today are struggling to accumulate it. The pure money of the past came in naturally, even when they begged the Lord for it not to come. Even when they said they wanted spiritual wealth not material wealth, the money would still flow in their direction. That is the merit karma, which brings pure money. (21)
I never liked this worldly life. Let me tell you about myself. Nothing in this worldly life interested me. If someone gave me money, I found it burdensome, even when the money was mine. e. I felt a burden when I took my salary, and a burden in taking it home. Before this Gnan (Self-realization), I found everything bothersome.
Questioner: We are so involved in making money in our business that we are not able to turn away from it and we are constantly preoccupied with it.
Dadashri: And even then you are not satisfied. You feel you want to make one million and when you reach that goal, you want to make two, then you think you will stop at five. This does not end.
I too would have made a decision to make a million. But I came to the conclusion that life does not give you an extension. If we were given a thousand years instead of a hundred to live, then hard work would be worthwhile. But there is no surety of anything in life. (24)
There are two types of authorities: One is an independent authority and the other is dependent authority. It is your independent