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files for bankruptcy, will he have to repay his debt in his next life?
Dadashri: He will not be able to see money again. Money will not even touch his hand! Our laws state that you should not spoil your intent when it comes to returning money you have borrowed. Then only money will return your way again and you will be able to fulfill your debts. No matter how much money you have, ultimately it will not come with you so get your spiritual work done. You will not encounter the path to liberation again. The path of liberation will not return for another eighty-one thousand years. This is the final‘ stand’; there is nothing ahead.
The debt is not about money in this world. It is the debt of previous life’ s attachment and abhorrence. If it was money that was the real debt, then would I not tell you,‘ Pay off the debt in full otherwise you will not be set free’. Instead I tell you to settle your debts with people, with equanimity; settle all matters with equanimity, even if it means that you have to pay the other person in order to do so. Having done so, ask the other person if he is happy with the settlement, and if he says he is, then the matter has been settled with equanimity.
Wherever you have committed attachment and abhorrence, these attachments and abhorrence will meet you again. You will have to settle these accounts by all means and suffering. This whole life is meant for settling all your accounts. Everything from birth to death in this life is mandatory.
A creditor kept harassing one man. That man who was being harassed came to me and told me that the collector would shout a lot of abuse at him. I told the man that he should call me the next time the collector called on him. The man sent his