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Aptavani-2
Everyone is being ‘roasted’ from all directions in the ‘heat’ of
their own physical pain, mental anguish and suffering imposed at
the hands of others. Whether it is a wealthy businessman, an
ordinary man, an ascetic, a man with two wives or a celibate;
they are all suffering. And Akram Vignan is the only soothing
and cooling solace that has come about. Otherwise, it has
become a challenge for everyone to even know how to live life.
This is the only place where peace has begun to take hold.
Questioner : Why does money have so much importance
nowadays?
Dadashri : When a person is trapped and cannot see
things clearly, cannot find ease in life through any other way, he
believes that money will give him happiness. He is convinced of
this and thinks money will get him everything he wants. He is not
to be blamed. To start with he has created karmas, which give
this very effect. In the entire city of Bombay, there are probably
only ten people or so who have money that will bind punya but
all others have money that will bind paap karma and these are
people who have incessant worries.
‘We’ too have a profession in this worldly life. In this
business of worldly interactions ‘we’ too pay income tax.
Despite being in the disreputable business of building contracts
and constructions ‘we’ remain vitarag (unattached) in it. How
are ‘we’ able to remain vitarag in this worldly life? Through
‘Gnan’. People are suffering and are miserable because of their
ignorance. People may have money because of their punyas, but
it is paap-anubandhi-punya money, meaning it will bind demerit
karma even as one spends the money he earned through merit
karma from past life. It will lead one to lower life forms. Punya-
anubandhi-punya money will bind merit karmas as it is being
spent in this life and will take one higher. Money can do both;
it can either take one higher or it can take him lower.
Nowadays human beings are no longer human. Just look