Science of Money

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

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Science of Money
Science of Money
market. That place is only for shrewd players and professional money managers. Others get roasted in the middle! Only the shrewd people benefit from it. A few people get together and fix the price and others get crushed in the middle! These shrewd people benefit and the small ordinary players pay the price! That is a full time business. The middlemen, the brokers make their living by getting ordinary people involved. When a relative of mine asked me about investing in the stock market, I advised him not to. (83)
Questioner: Dada, the American mahatmas are asking whether they should take whatever savings they have accumulated and go to India. They are especially concerned about their children. The children do not get the right upbringing and environment here in America. Please tell us how much money we need for living in India because here there is no such limit.
the soul (the unrealized self) attached to that material world becomes small. When the material world attached to the relative self decreases, the soul decreases, awareness increases as the soul expresses. Therefore all worldly sorrows are a vitamin for the soul and worldly happiness is the vitamin for the body. (80)
What is the nature of money? It is unsteady and transitory. Make good use of it so that you do not misuse it. Do not keep it stagnant, because by nature there are many different types of money. One is flowing! Liquid cash is all movable wealth. The immovable wealth is things like homes, property etc. Of the two, the immovable wealth will last longer while the liquid wealth will disappear! So what is the nature of cash? It does not last more than ten years. The nature of gold is that it will last forty to fifty years and the immovable wealth, real estate, will last up to a hundred years. Therefore the fixed period is different for each, but ultimately all of it will go. You will have to understand all this before you do anything. The Vaniks, the business class in India used to invest twenty five percent of their wealth in their business; twenty five percent for interest; twenty five percent in gold and twenty percent in real estate. This is how they organized their wealth. They are very astute people. The young members in the family are not taught this rule of money conservation. How can this be done when there is no money left?
Money is such that it always leaves in the eleventh year. It will last for ten years. This applies to honest money! Honest money leaves in the eleventh year! There is no telling when the money obtained through dishonest means will leave or what harm it will bring. (82)
Questioner: Which is better, buying gold or speculating in the stock market?
Dadashri: You should never get involved in the stock
Dadashri: Yes, that is true. If you want to start work in India then it will be necessary for you to bring in some money so that you would not need to borrow that money and pay interest on it in India. No one will lend you the money over there, except a bank. So it is better for you to keep some money aside. You have no choice but do business to make money in India. You will also have to meet expenses there. But there your children will blossom. Here you find dollars but there are problems with raising children. (85)
In America my mahatmas (those who have take Gnan from Dada) take me to the large shopping malls. 'Let us go Dadaji', they say. Even the mall itself is amazed that I am not enticed with anything it has to offer. It would salute me with reverence again and again knowing that nothing it has to offer tempts me. Nothing in the store would catch my eye. I will look at everything but I would not be tempted with anything. What use do I have for