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~ Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan
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Customers: Who Brings Them?
Questioner : I open my shop early and close late in order to attract more customers, is this right?
Dadashri: Who are you to attract customers? You should open your shop at the same time others do. If others open their shop at 7:00 a.m. and you open yours at 9:30 a.m., that is wrong. Close your shop at the same time others do. The worldly life tells you that you should observe what others do. You should sleep when others do. If you make noise till 2:00 in the morning, is that acceptable? Do you worry about how you are going to digest your food after you eat? The consequences of your eating become evident in the morning, without fail. This principle also applies to business everywhere.
Questioner : Dada, recently I have had no customers in the business, what should I do about that?
Dadashri : If you lose electricity and you sit there waiting and pondering, 'When will the light come back? When will the light come back?' will it come back sooner? What do you do in that situation?
Questioner : I notify the company or I will go there myself.
Dadashri : Do you not call the company hundred times?
Questioner : No.
Dadashri : When this light went off, we were all singing. Did the light not come back on its own?
Questioner : Does that mean we should remain detached?
Dadashri : It is wrong to remain detached, but it is also wrong to become attached. You just have to maintain from within, 'It would be good if the lights were to come back.' You are asked to remain calm. 'It would be good if the customers come.' Just maintain this much but do not get excited. Maintain regularity and do not spoil your inner intent. To maintain regularity is your true effort. Do not get agitated if there are no customers and when some day there is a throng of customers, see to it that every customer is served to their satisfaction. Instead, people get angry with their employees if there are no customers. How would you feel if you were in their shoes? The poor worker comes to do your job and you tell them off. He will put up with your abuse, but at the same time, he will bind vengeance against you. You should never be harsh to your servant. He is human too! The poor man is miserable at home, and at work, you keep telling him off. Where is the poor man to go? Show him some kindness.
When a customer comes to your shop, show him your goods with love and patience, and when you have no customers, then remember God and meditate. Instead, you fret looking to see if any customers are coming and your intellect then troubles you, 'Today I am going to make a loss'. You become overcome with anxiety and then you take out your frustrations on your workers. You become engulfed in adverse meditative states. Whatever customers come to your shop, they come because of vyavasthit and only those who are meant to come will come, so do not interfere in the process. When you have customers, you can haggle over the prices but you should not allow any kashayas (anger, pride, attachment and greed) to transpire, you have to accomplish your work by appeasing them. If your arm were to get trapped under a big rock, would you break the rock by hitting it with a hammer? No because that would crush your arm. Instead, you would try to pry it out gently. If you usekashayas in your interactions, you will create vengeance and one vengeance will lead to endless vengeance. Vengeance is the basis of the world's existence; vengeance is the main cause.
A. Questioner: Definition of Suffering Dadashri: True unhappiness is when you are hungry and you do not get any food to eat for hours on end; it is when you...Read More
A. Questioner: Dada, my children misbehave at home. My scolding has no effect on them. Dadashri: Have you ever noticed the writing on some packages shipped...Read More
Q. Words hurt children … so how to deal with children?
A. Dadashri: In the current times, there is nothing better than speaking as little as possible. Today the words that come out hurt people like rocks. This...Read More
Q. How to reprimand or scold children for their improvement?
A. Questioner: How can I tell whether I have improved? Dadashri: When others see love in you even when you reprimand and scold them. Even if you reprimand...Read More
Q. I have big row with my wife, who is at fault?
A. Questioner : Some people just do not understand, no matter how nicely you interact with them. Dadashri: If they do not understand, then the fault is...Read More
Q. The other person comes to pick a fight, what should I do?
A. Questioner : What should we do if we do not want to get into a conflict but the other person comes to pick a fight? Say one is very careful and aware, and...Read More
Q. What is the ultimate solution to conflict between man and woman?
A. Dadashri: Man has to marry for his food! He may think to himself, 'I am the bread winner,' but who will do the cooking? The woman knows that although she...Read More
Q. How conflicts can be resolved?
A. Dadashri: The one who learns the art of adjusting is the one who has turned towards the path of liberation. To have made an adjustment is Gnan. The one who...Read More
Q. How do I deal with difficult spouse?
A. Dadashri: It would be a different matter if after quarreling with your wife; you would have nothing to do with her. However, you have no choice, you will...Read More
Q. What is the importance of 'True Intent' in resolving conflicts?
A. Questioner : What should we do when we know that despite our efforts to compromise to reach a settlement with the other person, the outcome is going to be...Read More
Q. What should be the Goal of Life?
A. Dadashri: Why do you conduct your business? Questioner : To earn money. Dadashri : Money for what? Questioner : That I do not know. Dadashri : Let me...Read More
Q. What is Ideal Business and what are its Limits?
A. Questioner : What is ideal Business? Dadashri: The best kind of business is one where there is no violence or harm against other living entity through the...Read More
Q. Be Aware of the Dangers in Business but Be Fearless.
A. Dadashri: Every business has gains and losses associated with it. If there are a lot of mosquitoes in your room, they will not let you sleep. But, you...Read More
Q. Today if a person tries to do business honestly, his business Incurs a loss, why is that?
A. Questioner : Today if a person tries to do business honestly, his business Incurs a loss, why is that? Dadashri: When you do your work honestly you will...Read More
Q. I have a lot of worries about my business. How to stop worrying?
A. Questioner : I have a lot of worries about my business. I am faced with a lot of difficulties. Dadashri: Understand this much. Understand that the moment...Read More
Q. We have lot of money but no peace at home?
A. Questioner : Does the quarreling have anything to do with the kind of money people have? Dadashri: That is the very cause. If the money is pure, the mind...Read More
Q. Keep Your Intentions Pure To Pay All Debts
A. Questioner : I have incurred a very heavy loss in my business, what should I do? Should I close the business? I am in deep debt. Dadashri: Losses...Read More
Q. How dangerous is the Abuse of Power?
A. Some with power and authority will oppress those under them. The one who abuses his power will lose it. He will also lose his right to be born as a human...Read More
Q. Why to protect your subordinates?
A. People criticize and attack their subordinates. You fools! Why don't you attack your boss? That is where your victory counts! Such are the interactions of...Read More
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