Janardhanan and teammates set to work collecting the money needed for the purchase of the land and the initial construction efforts of Yogi Ramsruatkumar ashram at tirvuannamalai. Each week they would report to Yogiji exactly how much had been collected, and from whom. Their efforts, over many months, amounted to more than fifty-five lakhs (5,500,000 rupees, or approximately $110, 000 U.S). It was enough to begin the ashram construction.

As initial construction efforts began, however, there was regularly a shortage of funds, parthasarathy suggested that they purcase a lottery ticket. At another time, he had the equally humorous suggestion that the team put their efforts into trying to catch a particularly notorious bandit (dacoit) named Veerappan, in order to cash in on the reward. When Janardhanan told this idea to Bhagwan Yogi , joking about how parathasarathy had gone made the beggar simply informed them that viripan is in dense forest, meaning, that the man was untoucheable. (To this day veerappan has not been caught. He is credited with over two hundred murders, including the kidnapping of government ministers.)

In the same mood of playful repartee, janardhanan reminded Yogi Ramsuratkumar that both swami Nityananda and his Father, Papa Ramadas, had apparently produced money magically, of the precise amount needed, when the workers at their ashrams needed to be paid.

Commenting on these great stories, Yogiji said, with a twinkle in his eye: oh, janardhanan, this beggar doesn't have that much power.

Quite the contrary, miracles in relationship to money were always happening around Yogi Ramsuratkumar. But they occurred in slightly different ways- ways that specifically served the needs of those who were involved in them.

An American man who lived in Tiruvannamalai for seven months was surprised to find his relationship to money and personal intergrity highlighted by a story that Yogi Ramsuratkumar asked to be read in the afternoon darshan. This younger man had spent the previous year of his life going from job to job without a sense of purpose. He would commit to one thing and the change his mind and move to another.

The story beggar told was about a rich man who had promised to provide a lot loan of two laksh rupees (if you convert in US dollar it would be around $6000) to a merchant for a business venture. Before the loan was given, however, the merchant's business collapsed and he was required to leave town. Just before he merchant left, the rich man visited him and handed him the full amount of money. When a friend of the rich man heard of this he was shocked. why did you give him this money, even though his business was dissolved? To which the rich man replied, I gave a my word, what else could I do?

Hearing this story, the American man saw his problem with lack of purpose and lack of money were a result of his waffling commitments. His failure to honor his word was actually the source of his suffering. This tale told by Yogi Ramsuratkumar was momentary wake-up call.

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