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Aptavani-4
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You create obstacles for everything by yourself. Whatever you have brought with you in your ‘receptacle of intellect (buddhi no ashaya), you will receive even without desiring it, provided there are no obstacles against it.
There is everything in this world, but why do these things not come to you? It is because your obstacles are hindering you.
Questioner: How do these obstacles happen?
Dadashri: If this man is giving out some snacks to someone and you say, “Why don't you leave it, it will only go to waste," you can say that an obstacle has been created. When someone is donating some money and you say to him, “Why are you giving him money? He is likely to squander it away,” and so you create an obstacle towards charity. Then, regardless of whether or not that person gives the money, you still created an obstacle. Then, when you encounter difficult times, there will be no one there to help you.
Questioner: What if the obstacles were not created through speech, but through the mind?
Dadashri: The effect of spoken words is realized in this life, and those drawn by the mind will come into effect in the next life.
So all these obstacles have been created by one's own self; otherwise, is there anything that the Self does not have? Everything in the world is ready, and waiting for it. “Can we come, can we come?” they are asking. However, it is the obstacles that tell them, “No, you cannot come.” So the obstacles do not allow them to come to you.
Questioner: So we should stay vigilant (jagruti) that no negative thoughts arise.
Dadashri: That cannot be possible. Negative thoughts will not stop coming. You have to erase them, that is your job.
| SR No. | 030034 |
| Book Title | Aptavani Shreni 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dada Bhagwan |
| Publisher | Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust |
| Publication Year | 2013 |
| Total Pages | 480 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 1 MB |