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is in order to maintain purity. A Doctor says, the insulin costs Rs.5/-, and I have to charge Rs.15/- for the injections otherwise I cannot live, is this purity? Yes, if it is absolutely a must and you have to charge that, then that is honesty. If it is done honestly, the only way in which you can live, that is due regard. The word 'due' is a very difficult word to understand. With 'due' regard, He never said that it should not be something which can be considered as an avarice or greed or any other such thing.
The profound theory Hindus and Muslims practice, is that "God has created man and also provided means for his sustenance". But we forget this and we start thinking that we have to create an asset, we have to go on accumulating. That again many times means resorting to foul methods. A foul thought immediately pollutes the food that you eat. We know pretty well that whether we earned by pious means or impious means, that thought is there. That thought of impious means automatically covers the food, and we eat polluted food. This pollution is entirely different from the pollution that our environmentalists talk about. They talk about physical pollution, here it is mental pollution. It is much worse. So polluted food is what we should not have. In order to keep it as pure food, we must always think this is what Divinity has blessed me with today. He says our living should be in such a way as to justify as to what we get as food, because our living, our way of life or what we call vocation is primarily meant for earning food, nothing else. Not for expressing our ego. Not for self expression, self esteem, concepts of motivation all those things are well understood, but fundamentally why do we work? We work-one, to express the Divine, two, to continue to express yourself. Otherwise we will not exist. We'll die. We have no right for suicide, nobody has got that right. Nobody has got a right to kill himself, because Divinity has thought it fit to express itself through us and it shall be Divinity alone which fixes the time when we should get back. It is not for us to fix the time. Our birth was not dependent upon our will, nor is our exit going to depend upon our will. In order to see that we continue to live and express ourselves we earn our food, but that shall not be something that is foul. What is foul, what is right, what is not correct all these things were not discussed by Revered Babuji, because our conscience is the best guide. It tells us whether we earned our food honestly or dishonestly. Nobody need tell us when we earn dishonestly that we have earned dishonest food. Our conscience knows and we automatically know that there is something wrong.

































































































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