Science of Money

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

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Science of Money
Science of Money
perpetuated. He becomes greedy himself. You are to practice frugality, you are to practice economy and spend money wisely, but you are not to practice greed. (314)
How does greed enter and take hold from within? Where does this process start? Greed is not present in a person when he has no money. But when he gets ninety-nine rupees, greed enters when he wants to turn his savings into an even hundred by adding a rupee. He thinks that he will not spend anything towards the household today and add one more rupee to this balance. This is called the 'shove of ninety-nine'! When a person gets this shove his greed will not be contained even when his hundred rupees turn into five million. This greed only breaks when a Gnani jolts him! (315)
From the moment he wakes up, a greedy person keeps practicing his greed; his entire day is spent consumed in greed. The vegetables are too expensive, he will say. His greed manifests even when he needs a hair cut; its only been twenty-one days since my last hair cut, it will not matter if I wait till the month is over. Do you understand? His tuber of greed keeps showing him such cues for saving money and he thus keeps perpetuating his kashayas. Of all the inner enemies, greed and deceit are very difficult to get rid of. (319)
A greedy person will not spend whatever little change he has in his pocket. He will not spend to travel in a rickshaw even though he has difficulty walking. I told such a person not to do this. I told him to start spending ten rupees at a time for rickshaw rides. He told me that he is not able to spend that way; he cannot even enjoy his meals in peace when he has to part with his money. He told me that he knew feeling this way was very wrong but what could he do, he was helpless. His prakruti, his nature was holding him back, so I told him that he should take some loose
change with him and drop a little at a time on the road as he is walking along. He did this one-day and then he stopped.
If a person were to do this a few times over, his mind would realize that it no longer has any control and the person does not listen to it anymore. So it would stop; in this way the mind and everything else will turn around. You have to act contrary to the mind; you have to shake it up a little. If people in your household get out of control, you have to shake them up a little, in the same way if your mind gets out of control; you have to shake it a little. (320)
What do we mean by a tuber of greed? A person has a constant awareness of how much and where his money is. So much is in the bank, so much is with such and such person, so much is held up in this project - this remains constant in his awareness. He will never have the awareness of 'I am pure Soul'. His awareness and preoccupation with money must be broken; his awareness must be engaged in his real Self. (321)
The intrinsic characteristic of a greedy person is that he will not be influenced by anything. He cannot be 'colored' influenced) by anything, he remains unaffected by anything. He remains *yellow', whether you dip him in red color or green color. If a person is greedy, all you need to understand is that he will not be colored by anything. (323)
Those without greed will be easily colored. When the greedy person laughs, everyone will think he is colored and is in with the rest of the crowd. Not so. The greedy person will listen to everything I say, he will even say that this Gnan is very good and that he feels very happy just listening to it but from within nothing touches him. Others forget all about their worldly life and possessions in this satsang but not the greedy one. He will not