Who is wealthy? It is he who has a royal and sharing
mind. He will spend money whether he has the money or not.
Money changes hands every eleven years. If no new cash comes
in for eleven years, even a millionaire will become poor! How
did people preserve their wealth in the old days? Dividing the
wealth in four parts: they bought property for twenty-five percent
of their wealth, they invested twenty-five percent in gold, they
put away twenty-five percent to earn interest and they invested
twenty-five percent in their business. One will never become
insolvent with this system!
When big business loss happens, one should know that
the effect of karma of sin is manifesting. Therefore he should
stop hectic undertakings in business and peacefully be in satsang
and do the most for the Self. At such a time any undertaking will
prove to be futile!
People refer to the physical body as being chetan (animate,
life-spirit). They call that which does work, talks and walks,
chetan. But true Chetan does not perform any activities at all;
to ‘know’ (jaanvu) and to ‘see’ (jovu); only these two functions
are that of the Chetan (the Soul, the Self). Everything else is of
the non-Self (anatma)! Even speech is mishrachetan (a mixture
of the Self and the non-Self); it is the ‘mechanical’ self. Speech
is not the Self. The Self is stable; it is permanent. Everything else
is mobile and temporary. The meaning of ‘mechanical’ is that it
is unsteady; it is mobile (sachar). The Soul is still (achar) and
the universe is mobile-still (sacharachar)!
When the chit becomes pure, it is the same as the interim
Self (awakened Self, antaratma).
At first conviction (pratiti) is established that, ‘I am pure
Soul’. This results in awareness (laksha). Thereafter, in order to
establish the experience of the Self, one has to remain absorbed
in the Self. But as long as pending karmas remain to be settled,
one cannot remain as the Self. Therefore this is called the state
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