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Money
what it does to the mind. This is not something that is outside
my own experience. I myself have swum through this very ocean
and gone across. So I understand what you are going through.
The more money you make the more restless you become and
the mind becomes dull and you do not remember anything. You
are in a constant state of agitation. People keep counting their
bills; the bills are left behind and the counter passes on. Money
says to us, ‘Unders tand this much if you want: you will move
on and we will stay behind’. Therefore do not create any
animosity with it. Invite money to come to you because you
need it. We have a need for everything. But people become
obsessed with it. However you have no choice but count it
anyway. There are a few businessmen who delegate the
bookkeeping, counting and safekeeping of money to their clerks.
They instruct their clerks not to disturb them when they are
dinning. They tell their clerks to count the money on their own
as they take the money in and out of the safe. They will not
interfere with their assistants. There are such men around. In the
whole of India, there are a handful of such men who remain
completely unaffected. They are like me. I never count money.
What interference! I have not handled money for the last twenty
years and that is why I am filled with bliss.
There is no denying that as long as there are monetary
interactions, there is a need for it. But one cannot become
preoccupied with it. One can however become preoccupied
with the Lord. If you only pursue money (Laxmi), then Narayan
(God) will be enraged. Do we not have temples of Laxmi-
Narayan? Is Laxmiji an ordinary thing?
Whatever enjoyment you get from earning money, you
should also experience the same enjoyment whilst spending it.
But instead people keep commenting on how much money gets
spent away.