142 Life Without Conflict
Dadashri: You are the guardian of your wife and your children. Why should the guardian be the only one to worry? Your family members tell you not to worry, and yet you do.
Questioner: What is the nature of worries? The worries are not present when we are born, so where do they come from?
Dadashri: As your intellect increases, so does your internal suffering. When a child is born, does he have intellect? It is necessary for you to think about your business for ten to fifteen minutes, but if you go beyond this, then you will be bombarded with thought after thought and that is going beyond normality. When that happens, you must let go. Thoughts about your business are inevitable but if you become engrossed with the thoughts, they will linger on, leading to worries, and such adverse meditation is very detrimental for you.
Keep Your Intentions Pure To Pay All Debts
Questioner: I have incurred a very heavy loss in my business, what should I do? Should I close the business? I am in deep debt.
Dadashri: Losses incurred in a cotton business, cannot be recouped by opening a grocery store. Losses incurred in business have to be regained from the same business; you cannot recoup your losses by doing a different job. Can you recoup losses from a business of contract by opening up a beetle nut store? The injuries you incurred from whatever trade you were in will have to be healed in the same trade. Therein lies the medicine for your wounds.
The only thing you have to maintain is that you do not want to hurt any living being, even in the slightest degree. Be pure in your intentions to pay off all your debts. If your