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how will she erase and nullify the power of our past
wrongdoings and shower us with wealth?”

The neighbours answered, “Sulsa! Why then do we see wealth
in the hands of sinners? Would you call it as Goddess Lakshmi’s
foolishness?”

Sulsa patiently and firmly replied,

“You need to understand and accept the fact that Goddess
Lakshmi is not running some business that she randomly gives
money to some and not to others. How else can you see
wealth in the hands of thieves and rogues evil and wicked
men while noble religious people are subjected to poverty? If
Goddess Lakshmi is responsible for this, then isn’t it
discrimination on her part? But in reality, she is not responsible
for this. A soul’s previous good or bad karmas play an

important role here. Accordingly, he obtains wealth here.
Goddess Lakshmi is powerless. Thus, if the acquisition of
wealth is dependent on our previous karmas, then in the
presence of our inauspicious karmas, worshipping her will
not help. Similarly if karmas are in our favour, wealth will be
at your doorstep even if you do not worship her.

The neighbourhood women exclaimed, “Arre! But at least
come to see them once.”

Sulsa replied, “Whom should you see? The one who is
genuinely God or the one who is not? Tell me, can you call
the one who has his wife with him as God? God is the supreme
Vitaraga. He is completely detached from this world. Inspired

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