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only enjoying the fruits of his merit karma. Why should we
interfere in his enjoyment?’ He replied, ‘ Is it not important to
make him wise?’ I told him, ‘The wise ones in the world enjoy
themselves. The foolish ones waste their wealth. The one who
works hard for money is a laborer’ Those who work hard
derive pleasure from doing so because of their ego. The boss
goes to work wearing a long coat so that all the workers would
stand and welcome him as he enters the office. His ego is fed.
While those who enjoy themselves, care little about power or
authority. The truth is to enjoy whatever is yours.
The law of the circulation of money is this: In India as
there is an increase in the number of unworthy people; money
increases. Where there are forthright and ethical people, the
money is lacking. So note that wealth has gone to the unworthy
and the undeserving. They have food on their table and do not
know how to enjoy it.
There are also the naive and simple people. They are
unaffected if they lose money or a valuable thing. They are not
concerned with societal status. For such people wealth flows in
easily. Wealth does not go to those who have a lot of worldly
awareness because these people have a lot of kashay - anger,
pride, attachment and greed. The whole daylong they continue
to do kashay. The simple ones have no such worldly awareness
and are free from these inner turmoil and weaknesses. They do
not fuss over things. Wealth flows to them, but they do not
know how to make good use of it and it passes away without
their awareness.
Whatever money there is in the world today, it is all
tainted and wrong. Very little of it is pure and right. There are
two kinds of merit karma: One that binds demerit karma and
takes a person into a lower life form and the other that binds