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your wages of one thousand rupees? Your boss pays your wages
but it is all dependent on merit karma. When demerit karma
(paap) takes over, the employees will abuse even the boss!
Questioner: Is this because the boss must have made the
intent (bhaav) to employ him and he must have made the bhaav
to work for that boss, and that is why everything has come
together?
Dadashri: No, bhaav is not like that.
Questioner: Then is there some kind of a connection of
give and take?
Dadashri: No, nothing like that.
Questioner: Then why did he go to work for him?
Dadashri: No, that is their karmic account. Neither the
boss nor the employee has any relation or acquaintance with
each other in the past life. The boss had in his receptacle of the
intellect (buddhi’s ashaya), ‘I want an employee such as this,’
and the employee had in his ashaya, ‘I want a boss like that.’
All this has been printed in their buddhi’s ashaya, and so
everything comes together without fail.
Even the children are born to one according to buddhi’s
ashaya: ‘It is more than enough even if I have just one son. He
will uphold my name,’ and so the son will uphold his name
according to his buddhi’s ashaya. The Jains will say, ‘It would
be nice if our son takes the formal ceremony of renunciation of
the worldly life (diksha); at least he will be blessed! Then those
parents will happily allow him to take diksha. Try talking to
other parents about diksha! They will refuse because they never
did such bhaav to begin with.
Nature and Buddhi’s Ashaya
When one attains a wife, it is not because he had made