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Aptavani-6
‘Your awareness slips, and do you know what will happen because
of that? When you eat without the presence of your chit, you
give rise to all the conditions for a heart attack. One should
never have the chit absent while eating. The mill owner then told
me, ‘My chit is always absent. Show me a way to improve
this.’ So then I showed him the way as to how his chit can
remain present in whatever he is doing. What would happen if
I were to give that man some money to count?
Questioner: He would even forget to eat.
Dadashri: In that case, his upayog would remain only in
counting the money.
There was a young baniya (business community) man
whose salary was six hundred rupees. I asked him, ‘What would
you do if they paid your wages in one rupee notes?’ and he told
me, ‘I would count them!’ I told him, ‘Hey! When would you
finish counting six hundred notes? It would take so long! In that
time if someone is looking to make a quick buck, he can quickly
grab the goods and be on his way while you are busy counting.
How much time you would waste in counting the money! At the
most you may be short by five rupees, what else can you lose?
Besides, these people will not give you less money; they know
that everyone will count their wages.’ Rare are those with merit
karma (punyashadi) like ‘us’ who will take the money without
counting. So our task is easy. Who would waste time in such
matters? Then the young man tells me, ‘If they paid me in five
paisa (penny) coins, even then I would count before accepting
the salary!’ Blessed is this man! This is how upayog is wasted
away; it slips away.
If there is focus of awareness of the pure Self (upayog),
then it will help you everywhere. It will help you while you are
eating and drinking, in your business, etc., because the worldly
self (atma), does not do anything except interfere (dakhal) in all
this.