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make the payment, and not send any letters from the tax
department to me.
Questioner : If someone owes us money and does not
pay it back when he is supposed to, do we accept it as having
fulfilled our past life debt and be content with the situation?
Dadashri : Not like that. If that person is rich and
honorable then you should pursue the matter but if he is poor
then don’t make the effort to collect.
Questioner : Should I make the effort to collect or just
sit at home and assume that if he is going to return the money,
he will do so on his own accord and if he does not then do I
assume that my past debt has been cleared?
Dadashri : No, no don’t assume so much. You have to
make the necessary efforts. You can tell him: ‘At the moment
I am a little short of cash, if you have the money, can you please
make arrangements to send it to me?’ Speak to him with respect
and discretion and if the money does not come then understand
that you have settled some past account with him. But if you
don’t even make the effort, he will take you for a fool and he
will go on the wrong track.
Everything in this world is a puzzle and in this puzzle man
gets so much beating life after life and is beaten to death after
death. He has taken this beating for countless lives but when the
time comes for him to escape this cycle, he does not take the
opportunity. Then the opportunity does not come again. Only a
liberated person can liberate others; what can a person who is
bound, do for you? Only the liberated one is worthy. The moment
the thought occurs to you: ‘What’s going to happen if he does
not return my money?’ your mind will start to become weaker.
The element of suspicion is introduced. Once you lend money,