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remains absolutely adamant. For such situations you cannot keep
accounts. You have to go and spend the money for the airfare
and other items. Never keep accounts for money that comes
and goes. On the day you incur some loss, deposit that money
into your account of losses and offset it with the positive income
in the virtual trust account. It does not exist but it is there within
your mind. You still have a balance on the books. These books
are not permanent. Do people not destroy these books after a
few years? Would they destroy them if they were real? These
are all solutions to keep your mind at peace. The day you incur
a loss of one hundred and fifty rupees deduct if from the earnings
of five hundred that you have in the virtual account, so you will
be left with the sum of three hundred fifty. Therefore instead of
seeing a negative figure (loss) of one hundred fifty, you see a
positive figure of three hundred fifty. This is how the world is –
The world is not precise, it is approximate. A principle would
be precise and exact. But this world is capricious whereas the
account of liberation is an absolute and exact principle.
What do you call equanimity? Equanimity means that the
profit is the same as the loss. Equanimity is to remain unaffected
when you realize a loss instead of a profit, and also a profit
where you expected profit. It is where you do not become
elevated or depressed. It is to rise above the duality.
If people asked me how my business was doing, I would
tell them whether it was making a loss or even a profit. Generally
I would not discuss my business. If someone asks me whether
my business was making a loss, I would tell him if it were true.
My partner has never questioned me why I tell everyone about
the business. It would be better to tell the truth because it would
prevent people extending loans to us, and this would help reduce
our liability. On the contrary people tell me ‘Why do you say