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I separate everything – if the business was running in a
loss, I would say, ‘The business has suffered a loss’. We are
not the owner of profit and loss so why should we take on the
burden of profit and loss? Profit or loss does not touch us. If
for some reason there is a loss in the business and the income
tax has to be paid, I would tell the business, ‘Business, if you
have anything to pay the taxes off with, do so. You are the one
who has to fulfill this’.
If someone were to ask me, ‘Have you incurred a loss
this year?’ I would say ‘No, I have not had a loss, the business
has’. And if there was a profit I would say, ‘The business made
the profit.’ I do not have profit or loss.
Questioner : Certain things do not bother us much but
sometimes when we expect to make a profit in our sales and
end up making a loss, it keeps gnawing at us.
Dadashri : You should deposit such losses the moment
they occur in your ‘account of losses’ and by making an entry
of this in your books as a loan paid off, you can clear your
accounts. You have many opinions ahead of time that you will
make a certain amount of profit but you end up making a loss
so you have to tell yourself that it is all vyavasthit. If you are to
incur additional loss, it will happen if it is in your vyavasthit. So
these profits and losses are not in your control. You will incur
a profit even if you say you do not want it. You may say you
are tired of all the profits and that you do not want any profits
any more but even then you will not be able to stop it. Even
when you say no, there will be a pressure of both profit and
losses. So do not keep an account of your profits and losses.
If some businessman pressures me and insists that I visit
Calcutta by plane despite my objection, what would I do? He