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240 Aptavani-2 use and people experienced these rewards. After that these words have remained as merely words. Spiritual prosperity leads to improved worldly interaction. The latter is a by-product of the former. The one, who is devoted solely to the Soul, receives improved worldly interaction as a by-product. If one meets a Gnani Purush but does not attain worldly prosperity, then he will become a hermit. Here the load of your karmas lightens as you sit in the satsang and elsewhere the load gets heavier and there is nothing but endless entanglement (goonchaman). ‘We’ give you absolute assurance that whatever time you spend here in satsang, during that time you will not encounter any loss in your business and what is more, if you analyze the results you will find that in the final outcome you will have made a profit. Is this any ordinary satsang? How can any person who spends his time only for the Soul incur any loss? There is nothing but profit for him. One will benefit only if he understands this. In this satsang there arises the time during which one sitting here will bind a lifetime of one hundred thousand years in the celestial world or will bind karma for a birth in Mahavideh Kshetra. Your time will never be spent in vain when you sit in this satsang. This time that has come is wonderful. When Lord Mahavir was living, people had to walk all the way to the Lord’s satsang, whereas today we have buses, cars and trains and you are able to reach the satsang right away. The time has come for one to get his work by attaining the knowledge of Self. Never can you find a Gnani Purush and once in a while if a Gnani does manifest, then all you must do is get your work done. Except for the speech of the Gnani, who constantly experiences the Self, no one else’s speech will still your heart. Ordinarily such a speech is never to be found. This is the only real satsang in this world and elsewhere there are relative satsangs. Elsewhere, those who give satsang harbor some worldly desires, they may want money or sex, or disciples or fame. If the sign of the shop says ‘shop of anger’,