Science of Money

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

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Science of Money
Science of Money
towards the soul?
is fine. At least you should have a goal! The food you get is for this purpose. Do you understand? Is your life meant only for making money? Every living being is in search of happiness. Your life is for the knowledge of how you can attain liberation from all unhappiness. In this process you need to search out the path of liberation. Everything here is only for the purpose of attaining liberation. (106)
People live for two reasons. Only a rare person lives for the Soul. All the rest live for money. The whole world has become obsessed with money and yet people find no happiness in it! Their bungalows remain empty the whole daylong and they are at their factories. They have all the material comforts but no time to enjoy them. One needs to acquire Atma Gnan. How long is one to wander blindly? (109)
If someone were to ask what religion he should practice in his business, I would tell him that he should follow these three principles:
1) Ethical practice! The flow of money may increase or decrease. Never become unethical.
2) Maintain an obliging nature. If you do not have any money, at least ask people if you can be of any help to them. You can run errands for them instead. This is called an obliging nature.
3) Do not even harbor a desire of expecting something in return for what you do for others. The whole world has expectations in return for services they render, whether you wish it or not, you will be rewarded. There is always a reaction to any action. Your desires are nothing but actually begging on your part. They go to waste. (108)
Questioner: What should one do to make progress
Dadashri: One should maintain an exclusive foundation of honesty. This faith is such that when one finds himself in a difficult situation, the inner energy and power of the Soul) will express. When he is not in a bind, and there is plenty of money around, there is no scope for the manifestation of these inner energies of the soul. Honesty is the only way. It will not happen with devotional worship of the Lord either. If a person does a lot of bhakti but does not have honesty as his deep inner intent, there is no meaning in what he does. He must have honesty in his devotion. With such a base a human will become a human again. He will reincarnate again into a human form. Those who cheat and deceive others or covet other people's wealth and wives are all doomed to take a birth in the animal kingdom. No one can change this. Their behavior here naturally binds their birth there. In the animal kingdom, there is no such thing as having one wife. Every female belongs to all the other animals. Here married men are not supposed to look at other women lustfully, but this has become a habit with them and so they will be able to fulfill their desires when they go there into the animal kingdom. He will take this enjoyment for one or two lives there (as an animal) and then will straighten up and return to a human life. The entry into the animal kingdom molds him so that he becomes fit for a human birth again. After entering the human life he needs to mold further until he is ready for liberation. There is no liberation for the crooked! (109)
There is no problem if you eam money honestly and ethically. You are hurting only yourself if you bring money by dishonest means. When you die that money will be left behind because nature will confiscate it. Moreover, in your next life you will still have to suffer the inevitable consequences of your actions. (110)
Even if a man does not worship God, as long as he is ethical,