True Happiness Cannot Be Found Amidst Internal Burning

There is not a single living being who is not searching for happiness! And that too, they are searching for permanent happiness. They believe that there is happiness in money. However, internal burning arises in that too. To have internal burning and to attain eternal bliss, that can never happen [simultaneously]. The two are contradictory. This is not the fault of money; it is one’s own fault.

What would you do if you were given ten million rupees?

Questioner: That too is a problem, isn’t it?

Dadashri: What would you do if someone gives it to you? You should ask, “If you have a problem, then why are you passing it on to me? Why would I want to take on your problem? Please take it back.”

And how much happiness arises through this money! If you are given five hundred thousand rupees, then at first you become very happy when you see it. Then you will have the problem of where you should put it. Which bank should you put it in? Then you will have to be ready so that no one steals it from you on your way home. And what if, on the way, someone does happen to snatch it away from you? So, none of that can be considered as happiness. The fear of getting robbed and actually getting robbed, there is no happiness in that at all.

Everything in the world will end up becoming unpleasant and the Self is one’s Real form ( Swaroop); there is no misery in It whatsoever. For people of the world, even if someone gives them money, it ends up becoming unpleasant. Where to keep the money secure becomes a problem!