Monetary Dealings for One Who Has Attained Gnan

Questioner: If Dada’s mahatmas have money, then what should they do about it?

Dadashri: That is not a problem. It is not a problem for you, you [Chandubhai; the relative self] should carry out monetary dealings. Dada is looking over you. If a problem arises for you within, then you should ask ‘us’, that is all. ‘We’ have to do all of this. ‘We’ are indeed telling you that ‘we’ have to do all of this. ‘You’ do not have to do anything. ‘You’ have to remain in ‘our’ Agnas (five special directives given by the Gnani Purush after Gnan Vidhi).

Everything will come, all you have to do is carry out monetary dealings. It is not Your interaction, nevertheless, ‘I have to do it’; that should remain [in the awakened awareness]. You should say, “It is not worth doing it, yet I have to do it.” Just see to it that you don’t become fond of it. Eat, drink, eat everything, that is what I am saying.

Now do things so that money is used for a good cause. For a good cause means to use money for people other than yourself. Or if you get good books printed and distribute them to people, then that will benefit people; that is referred to as gnandaan (the donation of knowledge). If the money is used for charity, then let it be used for that.

You invest all your money towards earning more money, whereas I say, “Spread your money freely over here. And I do not touch that money.” Money is not the truth; money is not the absolute truth. It is a relative truth. If you give me this gold, then it is of no use to me at all. In Mumbai, when all the ladies offered me their gold chains, I told them, “They are of no use to me. If you have illusory attachment ( moha), then you keep them. I do not want anything of yours.” They replied, “No, we have such a fervent intent, we would like to give them away. So I told them, “Then it is your choice. Otherwise, ‘we’ do not want them.” They had the intent to make a crown for Lord Simandhar Swami. So I told them, “Go ahead and donate them.” Otherwise, we do not want anything.