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suspicion causes interference and creates negative karmas. You should remain in your non-suspecting state of the Self. The world will constantly remain in a state of suspicion (shanka).
Excess intellect is harmful Questioner : Dada, how can one decrease buddhi?
Dadashri : You need the power of samyak (right kind) buddhi to reduce it.
someone less fabric than what they pay for, by stretching it as you measure it, it is considered raudradhyan. Because the intention behind it is to sell people short so you can have extra material left over. If you are to get 9999 Rupees, then that is all you will get with or without raudradhyan. On the contrary you ruin your dhyan by stretching the fabric and saying, "I have to make money somehow!" People do not have faith that money will come to them. You have started your business on faith so do not ruin your state (the dhyan) on that faith, and have trust on the faith that money will come.
Memory increases as buddhi increases and so does inner turmoil. Buddhi is to be set aside and must never be heeded. If there is one person in your vicinity that has caused problems for you because you listened to him, then how long will you go on listening to him? You may listen to him once or twice but then you will not accept anything he tells you. Buddhi makes you sensitive; it makes you emotional, so how can you accept it?
In your worldly interactions, one should have enough wisdom to ensure that no one is harmed and that overwiseness (akkal) is unnecessary. If a person becomes over wise, he will lose his mind; he becomes stupid. So he should not be over wise, excess buddhi should be removed. He needs to be wise but not over-wise. When he becomes over-wise, he will start to cheat and trick others. When he tricks someone he is using his higher intellect to take advantage of those with lesser intellect. Then what is the difference between you and a crook? Tricking people is even more harmful than stealing from them. It carries a greater liability as compared to stealing. The Lord has said, "You will become merciless if you continue taking advantage of people through your intellect." It is better to hurt people physically because some day you may even feel pity for the person you hurt. Everyone in the world uses their intellect to hurt others. It is considered the worst raudradhyan. The consequences of this will be a life in hell. Raudradhyan means to deprive others of their happiness or to hurt others by any means. When you sell
Everyone in the world moves around in blind faith; people even drive cars in blind faith. When a Gnani Purush sits in the car, he knows that the car may or may not have an accident: whatever will be will be. It is possible to move about in blind faith, even if one does not have Gnan. Buddhi makes you wander in the worldly life
The one who is intrinsically inclined to wander will meet the one who will make him wander. Those who make others wander will pay a higher price because they use their higher intellect to take advantage of them. The intellect is to be used for looking for ways to help people, but instead people misuse their intellect. Such intellect is vyabhicharini buddhi. Lord Krishna has referred to it as 'vyabhicharini buddhi', in the Gita. There is no need to do anything through the intellect. The world is such that everything can be done effortlessly. People do not know how, otherwise it is possible to enjoy everything in this human life. Humans cannot enjoy the world and neither can the animals that come into contact with them; the animals too suffer along with the humans. There are millions and millions of other embodied souls (ivas) but only the humans have suffering because they have misused everything; the mind, the intellect etc. Only human beings are independent and without support (nirashrit; they believe themselves to be the independent doers). Upon coming
