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Questioner : These days the taxes are so high, that large
businesses cannot offset the expense without cheating. When
everyone ask for bribes a person has to cheat, does he not?
Dadashri : You may cheat but do you feel any remorse
from within? When you feel remorse and are repentant, it will
lighten your liability.
Questioner : But what should we do in such
circumstances?
Dadashri : You have to understand that it is wrong to
cheat and you must repent sincerely when you do. You only
become free if you feel uneasy within about what you have
done. In this day and age you have no choice but sell goods
you purchased in a black market, in a black market. So you
should tell ‘Chandubhai’ to do pratikraman. Before you did not
do pratikraman and that is why you have filled these ‘ponds’ of
karma. Now you can clean it all up by doing pratikraman. Who
is the doer of this greed? Chandubhai is the doer. If you sell
your goods in the black market, you must tell Chandubhai:
“Chandubhai, there is no objection in your selling in the black
market. It is under the control of vyavasthit. But you must do
pratikraman and vow not to do it again’.
If someone tells me: 'I do not want any religion, I want
worldly happiness'. I would tell him to practice honesty and
ethics. I would not tell him to go to the temples. Giving to others
is the religion of a celestial being. Not taking what belong to
others is the religion of man. Therefore honesty is the highest
religion of all. Dishonesty is the best foolishness. But if I cannot
be honest, does that mean I have to jump into a lake? My Dada
has taught me to do pratikraman every time I am dishonest.
Your next life will be beautiful. Know dishonesty as dishonesty