In Ahmedabad an 80-year-old merchant got a son and became mad (from happiness that he got a son). Many become mad like that. Therefore, to worship God requires hundreds of thoughts. In life, when one does business, there may be loss or there may be profit; marriage may occur and shrāddh may also take place. All these should be thought of, but whatever happens, neither celebrate nor mourn. Since if one mourns, spiritual knowledge is lost and one falls back from satsang; the intellect becomes insensitive and ignorance increases. And by quarrels, the water in the pot dries up.1 Therefore, whatever business one does, remember that one does not remain here on earth forever, and so it will perish. In fact, there is a shlok for wealth: Bhumiryātu rasātalam gunganastasyāpyadho gachhatu Shilam shailatatātpatatvabhijanaha sandahyatām vahninā, Shaurye vairini vajramāshu nipatatvarthostu naha kevalam, Yenaiken vinā gunāstrunalavprāyāhā samastā ime.2 Therefore, do not think: ‘Let the earth be destroyed but let me have wealth.’ Footnotes: 1. 1. Two or more brothers may live with their wives as an extended family in one house. But if there is a dispute between them, none will fill the common drinking water pot – and so it will dry up. 2. Let the earth go to the nether world; let the collection of virtues go even lower than that; let character take a deep plunge from a mountain; let nobility be burnt; let weapons hit the brave enemies; but we just want money, since without money all virtues are as insignificant as a blade of grass.