Friends, here everyone from different fields is sitting. There are owners, businessmen, and their businesses. So why do we do business? To be successful. What is success? Most people say success means getting money. Money gives us happiness – this is our belief. This belief is completely wrong. Dongreji Maharaj said that 'money alone gives happiness' is the biggest lie. There is no bigger lie than that money alone gives happiness. Money gives us a tool. If we have money, we can take a car; if not, we take a rickshaw. If we don't have money for a rickshaw, God has given us legs – it takes a bit longer, but it's the same. There is no need for money. Money is a tool. And friends, I often say that if money alone gives happiness... because according to my life experiences, these are the addresses of happiness. So I will show you the addresses of happiness. Then you can take as many as you find appropriate. You have to leave the addresses for others, not go to those addresses. There is a saying: Business without honesty is useless. Whatever business we do, honesty is very important. Honesty. Look, it's not that only big people do wrong, nor that only small people do wrong. There is no such thing. Yesterday I saw a video where a vegetable vendor had made a special setup to show people. But when you buy tomatoes, he puts two tomatoes and then the vegetable that is stale, underneath he has a string in his thumb, he made a hole in the cart. So when it's a kilo, he puts only 600 grams, and then he presses that thumb, and the vegetable pan becomes lighter. So you get only 600 grams instead of a kilo. He gives as much as he wants, 800 grams, depending on how he presses the thumb. So those who cheat do it anyway.
And friends, I have come to tell you this experience that I am under the influence of Dongreji Maharaj. And who is Dongreji Maharaj? He was a Bhagavata Kathakar. And he passed away 30 years ago. But when he was alive, I had listened to about 10 or 12 of his Bhagavata Kathas. And he doesn't know me, but I had accepted in my mind that whatever he said became part of my nature. That benefited me. So he used to say: Wealth and progeny are obtained according to destiny. For them, effort is necessary, but sin is not necessary. Dongreji Maharaj would say this: Wealth means money, wealth means all the things we get. And progeny means generation, sons, sons' sons. Both are obtained according to destiny. For them, effort is necessary, but sin is not necessary. And this principle, our company follows it till today. In our diamond market, we have an open challenge. For money, for business, if we ever tell one lie, we will leave the business. So there is no need to lie for money. I have come to show you practically that if we have lied for business or for money, we will leave the business. Why? Because money, when it is in your destiny, it comes from somewhere, somehow, you don't know.
And all people think that success is getting money. That is success. The meaning of success is satisfaction. If we get satisfaction, we consider that success. So if money alone is success, then in India out of 140 crore people, only 40 crore have money, so are 100 crore people unsuccessful? No, everyone is successful. They have a son, so they are successful. They became a father, became a mother, became a grandfather, became a grandmother – they are successful. That is also success. This is life. So we think that people living in slums are unhappy. They may be, but compared to us, they are happy because the wealthy person may have left their parents in an old age home. And the slum dweller, if they live with their parents and eat together, they are prosperous, they are successful. Unsuccessful? So there is a saying: Business without honesty is useless. Politics without principles is useless. Spirituality without character is useless. Education without values is useless. Farming without hard work is useless. And life without understanding is useless. So to live life, understanding is necessary. One whose nature is very beautiful, even God loves them, so others certainly love them. So what is life? It is satisfaction. I have many things to say, but mostly, what do you people want to know? I don't know everything, because I told you earlier that I am a very ignorant person. I have only studied up to 7th grade. So I don't know as much as you all. I only have experience. So we can only talk about practical experience. So if you have questions, you can ask. Then we will talk on your question, so you get what you want to know. That subject we will reach.
