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marriage twenty-five years later, you are mistaken. If people
believe in this, they are wrong. Whatever comes your way at
that time is the reality. Money must be fresh.
So use everything that comes your way, do not waste it.
Do not throw it away. Use it for a good cause. Do not have a
strong desire for accumulating it. There should be one principle
about accumulating money and that is that there should be a
limit to how much you accumulate. That is called the necessary
capital. Retain the capital and spend the rest in the right places.
You cannot waste money.
Contentment is the opposite of greed. This contentment
comes from an inner understanding carried over from the past
life. This understanding is different from Gnan, which is Self-
knowledge. This understanding which is the knowledge of the
relative world, results in his being content and not running after
money. Without this understanding greed remains.
One has enjoyed all this in many previous lives, and
therefore there is contentment that he does not want anything.
The one who has not enjoyed these things in his past life is
discontent. There remains within him a constant need and greed
to enjoy this, enjoy that etc. Then greed of many variety sets in.
Questioner : A greedy person is also miserly is he not?
Dadashri : No, misers are different. Misers do not have
money and that is why they are misers. A greedy person may
have twenty five thousand rupees at home, and yet he is
constantly looking for cheap bargains. His chit is always in
greed. Even when he goes to the vegetable market, he is looking
for the cheaper pile!
The greedy person has awareness about everything in the
worldly matters.