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keeping it safe. He will have to look for a bank where his money
will be safe. If his family or relatives find out he has money, they
will come asking for it. His friends too will say, “Dear friend, do
you not trust me even a little? I want only ten thousand”, and so
he is obliged to give against his wishes. There is unhappiness
when money is in abundance and unhappiness when it is scarce.
It is best to have just enough, otherwise there is unhappiness
even when you spend it.
If a woman sees another woman wearing a new sari, she
immediately starts wishing she had one too. Such thoughts bring
suffering. A person thinks he will keep his savings of forty
thousand rupees in a bank and will not dip into it. He is
comforted in thinking that this amount will remain intact as a
credit. But along with credit there is also an account of debit and
it comes along for the very purpose of taking away from the
credit. When water in a river rises to the brim, it says come and
use my water freely, but here when a surplus (of money) comes
to people, they hold it back. If the river were to have a life, it
too would hoard its waters. You should spend whatever comes
your way, why hoard it? Eat, drink, be merry and make others
merry. The nature of money is that it will increase and decrease;
there will always be an inflow and an outflow (puran – galan).
Whatever the amount of inflow, there will be a corresponding
amount of outflow. If there were no outflow, it would create a
problem. It is because there is an ‘outflow’ that you are able to
eat again! Breathing in is an inward flow and breathing out an
outward flow. The nature of everything in the world is to come
together and disperse. My discovery is: it is best to have neither
famine nor a feast. People waste away during famine and bloat
up in times of prosperity and abundance. An abundance of
money means it will not leave for two or three years. It is better
that money keeps moving and flowing, otherwise it becomes a
source of suffering. ‘We’ never think about money. People who
have not had darshan of Lakshmiji will keep thinking about her.
But within ‘us’ Lakshmi and Narayan (the fully enlightened