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One man was asking for my advice; he asked, “I want to give donation, so how should I give it?” So I thought, ‘This person does not have the understanding about giving money.’ I asked him, “Do you have money?” To which he replied, “Yes.” So I said, “Give it in this way.” I know that this person has a very pure heart and he is guileless, so he needs the right understanding.

What had happened was that ‘we’ had gone to visit someone. He sent a driver to drop me off, specially to drop me off. That [pure-hearted and guileless] man told the doctor, “Don’t take Dada back in the car. I will drop him off .” So, he came to drop me off and we ended up having a conversation! He was asking me for advice, “I want to donate money, but where should I give it, how should I give it?” [I said,] “When you built the bungalow, you must have made money.” He replied, “I built a bungalow, I built a cinema. Just recently, I donated one hundred and twenty-five thousand rupees in my town.” So I told him, “If you have earned a lot of money, then get an Aptavani [a series of fourteen volumes compiled from Dadashri’s speech] printed.” He immediately replied, “Your wish is my command. I did not know this. No one gives me such understanding.” Then he said, “I will get it printed immediately, within this month.” Then he asked me, “How much will it cost?” To which I replied, “It will cost twenty thousand rupees.” He immediately replied, “I will get these many books printed!” I told him not to rush into it.

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So if there is a guileless person like this who does not understand about giving donations, and if he asks, then ‘we’ show him the way. ‘We’ know that this person is guileless. If he doesn’t understand, ‘we’ show him. Otherwise, there is no need for ‘us’ to tell those who have the understanding, is there! Otherwise, they will feel hurt. And ‘we’ don’t want to hurt them. ‘We’ do not have any need for money at all. Donate only if you have surplus. This is because there is no donation like gnandaan in the world!

When someone reads the books of this Knowledge [of Dadashri’s], so much change takes place within him. So donate money if you have it; if you don’t have it, there is no need at all for it over here!

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