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Suspicion is constant death
Questioner: It is written in the Gita: 'Sanshayatma vinashyati', meaning when one begins to have suspicion, one self destructs. So is that suspicion referring to the soul or something else?
Dadashri: Everyone is prone to suspicion. There is not a single person who does not have suspicion at some time other. But some persons do not trust vishvas anything in the world. They will continue to be suspicious about everything and this will kill them; such people are 'dead' anyway!
Questioner: Are we talking about suspicion in the worldly life or in matters related to the Self nischaya? Which suspicion are we talking about?
Dadashri: The whole world has suspicion-uncertainty in matters of the Soul nischaya That happens as a rule. Lord Krishna has said, "sanshayatma vinashyati," for the worldly life. Any man who has suspicions about anything or anyone, whether it is his wife, father, mother, brother or uncle, that man is as good as dead. How can a man who has suspicions about everything, live? The entire world is suspicious about the Soul and in this regards there is no death. But the one who has suspicions in his worldly life will die, he is dead for sure. Such a man will not trust anyone; he will continue to have suspicions. He would like to give goods on credit but keeps suspicioning the borrower, such a man is dead for sure. When a young girl goes to college, her father will keep suspecting what she is up to now that she is grown woman. He will wonder who her friends are. He will have suspicions like this. So is he not dead?
Suspicion is of no use whatsoever. If a man goes out with a knife with the intention of attacking someone, he does not have any suspicions about his actions and that is why he can do that. And the victim too will die only because he did not suspect anything. Nevertheless, they die only once whereas the one who is suspicious, is dying constantly.
Suspicion and inquisitiveness
Questioner: What is the difference between suspicion shanka and inquisitiveness jignyasa?
