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Dada’s Book Excerpt

Coming And Going of Laxmiji - the
Goddess of Wealth (money)

18 | October 2015

Some people are obsessed with money.
They are constantly preoccupied with
thoughts of money and ways of
accumulating it. Preoccupation with
money is a heavy obsession.
Questioner :But one cannot do
without money.
Dadashri: Yes, you cannot do
without it but people do not
know how money comes
to them and so they keep
running after it.
Money transactions:
Money is a privilege for fortunate people
(one with merit karmas - Punyashali).
Merit karmas work in such a way that who
works maximum gets minimum. It shows
that he/she has a little bit of merit karmas.
After that, one who does not have to do
physical work, instead needs to do work
with speech, like lawyers, shows that they
have more merit karmas than those for
the earlier one. And what's better than
that? No hassles of even speech, no
hassles of body, but earns from mental
work. He is called morePunyashali(one
with more merit karmas) and what is still
better than that? Just by deciding, things
get done. Thinking and making a decision is
the effort. Once he decides, mere thought
of two bungalows, one godown, etc., mere
decision will make it ready. He is called
immensely fortunate one
(MahanPunyashali, one with greatest
merit karmas). Only decision making is an
act of doing efforts (for him). Decision
must be taken. Without the decision, it