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degree and no more. I will take ten rupees unethically every day
in my business. If any more than this sum, say five hundred
comes my way, I will not touch it.
This sentence of mine is very profound. If a person were
to understand this, his work is done! God too will be happy
with him: He wants to graze in someone else’s pasture, but he
does so within limits! Otherwise where is the limit when people
start grazing in some one else’s pasture?
Do you understand this rule? Practice the principle of
limits in dishonesty, do you? What I am saying is, ‘If you are
short of money all the time but you do not want to accept
bribes, how long can you go on fighting the matter? Furthermore,
you invite more problems when you borrow money from friends.’
So I tell him that he can resort to being dishonest, but within
limits. A person who exercises limits in his dishonesty is better
than one who is completely honest, because the honest man has
an ego about his honesty, whereas this person will not have this
disease.
No one would teach you such a thing! To practice
dishonesty within limits is a great fea t.
The person who sets limits to dishonesty will achieve
liberation, but how will the one who never takes bribes or is
never dishonest achieve liberation? It is because the latter is
intoxicated with the ego of his ethical behavior. God too would
dismiss him with the smugness he wears on his face. I am not
telling you to accept bribes but I am saying that if you are going
to be dishonest, then set a limit when you do so. Set yourself
a limit that you will only take five hundred rupees in bribes and
no more. Even if a person offers five thousand rupees, you will
not accept it. If you are running short of say five hundred rupees