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Money
What is the nature of money? It is unsteady and transitory.
Make good use of it so that you do not misuse it. Do not keep
it stagnant, because by nature there are many different types of
money. One is flowing! Liquid cash is all movable wealth. The
immovable wealth is things like homes, property etc. Of the
two, the immovable wealth will last longer while the liquid wealth
will disappear! So what is the nature of cash? It does not last
more than ten years. The nature of gold is that it will last forty
to fifty years and the immovable wealth, real estate, will last up
to a hundred years. Therefore the fixed period is different for
each, but ultimately all of it will go. You will have to understand
all this before you do anything. The Vaniks, the business class
in India used to invest twenty five percent of their wealth in their
business; twenty five percent for interest; twenty five percent in
gold and twenty percent in real estate. This is how they organized
their wealth. They are very astute people. The young members
in the family are not taught this rule of money conservation.
How can this be done when there is no money left?
Money is such that it always leaves in the eleventh year.
It will last for ten years. This applies to honest money! Honest
money leaves in the eleventh year! There is no telling when the
money obtained through dishonest means will leave or what
harm it will bring.
Questioner : Which is better, buying gold or speculating
in the stock market?
Dadashri : You should never get involved in the stock
market. That place is only for shrewd players and professional
money managers. Others get roasted in the middle! Only the
shrewd people benefit from it. A few people get together and
fix the price and others get crushed in the middle! These shrewd
people benefit and the small ordinary players pay the price!
That is a full time business. The middlemen, the brokers make