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Aptavani-5
Questioner: But people have money their whole life?
Dadashri: If this is 1977 then you will not have the
money you had in 1966.
Questioner: Where did this eleven-year rule come from?
Dadashri: Just as medicine has expiration dates of two
years or six months, and grains have an expiration period of
three to five years; money too has an expiration date of eleven
years.
Money is transient wealth. Two hundred years, or so,
ago if a Vania (business man) had one hundred thousand
rupees, he would buy twenty five thousand rupees worth of
property, twenty five thousand rupees worth of gold and
jewelry, invest twenty five thousand in bonds–interest bearing
instruments and invest the remaining twenty five thousand in his
business. If he needed money for his business he would
borrow five thousand or so from somewhere. This was their
system. So then how would he become bankrupt fast? He had
secured all four sides for himself. The Vanias today do not do
this.
If someone who has not taken Gnan comes to me for
advice and tells me, ‘I cannot make any headway no matter
how hard I try’, I would tell him, ‘At the moment your paap
(sin, demerit karma) is in operation, so even if you were to
borrow money from someone, you will be robbed on your
way home. For the time being just stay at home and read
whatever scriptures you normally do and continue praying to
God.’
Questioner: If everything depends on merit and demerit
karmas, then what is the point of filling in a tender–bidding for
a contract?
Dadashri: That tender is being filled in accordance with
the unfolding of merit and demerit karmas. Thus I tell you to fill