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Science of Money
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Science of Money anything. Nature is so precise and exact that even if someone has stolen a single strand of hair from you, it will come back. Nature is absolutely correct, all the way down to the sub-atomic particles. So there is no need for you to retain a lawyer. Neither should you be afraid of being robbed. People read about incidents in the newspaper about day light robbery where a woman is pulled out from her car and robbed of all the gold she was wearing, or someone was beaten and the robbers ran off with all his money. People start to worry whether they should wear their gold jewelry. Do not worry. Even if you go around wearing precious gems worth millions of rupees, no one will touch you, if it is not in your account. This world is like that, and it is correct. You will be affected only if you are karmic liability. That is why I am telling you that you have no superior over you. Therefore don't worry, become fearless. (188)
In your business, do not take anything that is not yours and on the day you end up doing so, there will be no worth in your business. God does not meddle in this. In your business the only two things that will help you are your skills and your honesty and ethics. If you are unethical, you will prosper for a year or two but after that you will incur a loss. If you happen to do something wrong, you will still become free of any liability as long as you repent for your actions. Ethics is the essence of worldly dealings. If you are ethical but do not have a lot of money, you will still have peace of mind and if you are unethical but have a lot of money, you will still have miseries. Religion without honesty and ethics is no religion. Ethics is the foundation of religion. (189)
It is like this. Be completely ethical if you are able to be so. If not, then at least make a decision to be ethical at least three times a day. The fourth time you may let go and be unethical. It is still ethical to be unethical as long as you set a limit. Maintain
honesty in your dishonesty. As a representative of the vitarag Lords, I am telling you that as long as you as keep your dishonesty in control, in the bounds of disciplined limits, you are ethical. This discipline will take you to moksha. I am not concerned whether you are honest or dishonest, but keep a discipline and limit over what you do. The whole world has pounded everyone in their worldly interaction with the guilt of 'thou shall not' and I am the only one who is saying, 'go ahead, do not worry, be unethical, but do set a limit and stick to the discipline. You will not be responsible from then on'. Of course the ideal thing is to remain honest and ethical. (190)
I am saying that be unethical if you cannot avoid it but do it within limits. Resolve that you want to be unethical to a certain degree and no more. I will take ten rupees unethically every day in my business. If any more than this sum, say five hundred comes my way, I will not touch it. (191)
This sentence of mine is very profound. If a person were to understand this, his work is done! God too will be happy with him: He wants to graze in someone else's pasture, but he does so within limits! Otherwise where is the limit when people start grazing in some one else's pasture?
Do you understand this rule? Practice the principle of limits in dishonesty, do you? What I am saying is, 'If you are short of money all the time but you do not want to accept bribes, how long can you go on fighting the matter? Furthermore, you invite more problems when you borrow money from friends.' So I tell him that he can resort to being dishonest, but within limits. A person who exercises limits in his dishonesty is better than one who is completely honest, because the honest man has an ego about his honesty, whereas this person will not have this disease.
No one would teach you such a thing! To practice dishonesty
