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their good quality grain with an inferior quality. When a person resorts to such practices, he will regress into an animal life form in his next life. One must do business honestly otherwise dishonesty will creep in. (144)
In your business you will make a profit of $66,616 whether you do business honestly or dishonestly. So then how do you want to conduct your business? (145)
You just have to make an effort in your business and scientific circumstantial evidences (vyavasthit) will automatically organize everything. However, you still have to make the effort and not become lazy. God has said that everything is vyavasthit. Whether you make a thousand or a hundred thousand, your cunningness and deceit will not increase your profit by a single penny. On the contrary your cheating will bind new accounts for next life.(147)
Questioner: If the person we are dealing with is being cunning, should we not do the same in return? That is what people do nowadays!
Dadashri: This is precisely how the disease of cunningness sets in. But the person who has the knowledge of vyavasthit, he will remain absolutely calm. If a person is being cunning when he deals with you, quietly find your way out the back door, but do not resort to the same cunning ways. (148)
What I am trying to say is that do you have to worry whether you will have water to bathe or a mattress to sleep on? In the same way money will be there for you without your giving it much thought. (149)
There is no need for you to keep an inner intent (bhavana) to earn money. Let your efforts continue, however. What happens when you have inner intents? If I grab the money for myself, there
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will be none left for the other person. Let whatever quotas have been assigned to people naturally, be. So then what is the use in keeping an inner intent? That is what I am trying to say. Doing this will prevent many people binding demerit karma. That is what I am saying.
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There is tremendous essence in this single sentence, but only if you understand it. It is not mandatory that people take this Gnan of mine. If a person has not taken this Gnan but understands that everything is very precisely allocated and nothing occurs outside of one's account, it is enough. Would you not otherwise understand if you experience a loss even when you are working very hard? Because hard work is hard work, you ought to be rewarded for it, but do you not also experience a loss even when you work hard? The account of life after life is very precise and exact.
The only objection is in your entertaining an inner intent towards money, nothing else. I do not have any objection towards any of your other actions. People will read this but they are not able to understand. They will read everything here but the essence within this sentence is very profound. (150)
As long as you are not familiar with what is wrong and dishonest, it will enter your business.
Questioner: But even when we know what is right in the business, we are not able to say so.
Dadashri: That shows that the worldly dealings are not under our control, but our inner intent is. To plant a seed is in our control, to reap the harvest is not. If you do something wrong, your internal intent should be, 'this should not be so'.(150)
A true boss never has to utter a word. If a boss scolds, we
