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He rejected one of our finished projects. Today ten thousand
rupees seem trivial but in those days it was a significant amount.
This event had an impact on me to the point of lot of worries.
But then I immediately found the answer from within. I asked
myself, ‘What is your share in this partnership?’ Those days
there were only two partners. I then analyzed everything further.
There were two partners and only those two were named on
the business papers and documents, but how many partners
were there in reality? There was the two of us and then our
wives and also my partner’s sons and daughters. They were all
partners in this, were they not? Then it dawned on me as to
why I was the only one carrying the burden on my shoulders.
Why was no one else was worrying about this set back? That
day this thought saved me. Is it not true?
Decrease Your Expectations Of Profit For Happiness
I have done all kinds of business contracts in my life.
Amongst these I have also constructed jetties on the sea. I had
made a decision that I would be satisfied with a profit of one
hundred thousand rupees even when a contract would yield five
hundred thousand. Or in the worst case it would be enough for
me if I were to break even as long as the income paid for my
daily expenses and taxes. Then if the realized profit turned out
to be three hundred thousand, I would be very happy because
it was more than I had expected. People become miserable
when they expect forty thousand but get only twenty.
Lose All Expectations And Be Free
If a person were to expect only a loss i.e. treating all
worldly endeavors as a loss, then no one would be happier than
he. This kind of awareness is such that he will never be subject
to any loss in his life. Anyone who looks at loss from this
viewpoint will never experience loss in his life.