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in the tender but I know on what bases that tender is being filled.
Nothing happens outside of these two laws.
I tell many people to bring me a completed tender but no
one has done so. How can they complete one? It is all
dependant upon merit-demerit karmas. Therefore, no matter
how hard you try; you will lose even what you have if your
demerit karmas unfold. So go home and relax and do a little
work. And if it is time for your merit karmas to unfold, then
what need is there for you to go out roaming? You will get
what you are looking for sitting at home, without much effort.
That is why I tell you not to complicate things by trying too
hard in circumstances of both paap (unfolding of demerit
karmas) as well as punya (unfolding of merit karmas). In both
situations, you will get all that you are going to get by working
normally. Therefore there is no need for anyone to complicate
things by needlessly trying too hard. You just have to
understand this.
One contractor came to me, when we were building a
jetty in Jaighadh in 1968, and told me, ‘I have a guru whom I
visit regularly. Every year my business makes profit and it grows
even though I do not wish for it. Is this because of the grace of
my guru?’ I told him, ‘Don’t believe that it is because of your
guru’s grace because if you lose money you will blame the guru
and curse him.’
A guru is only a nimit (one of the evidences in the
result; apparent doer) in all this; his blessing too is a nimit (one
of the evidences unfolding). If the guru wants m