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Otherwise, people go to astrologers seeking help. An Astrologer may say, 'Look, how good all the stars are. Nothing is going to happen to you. You will get your money back.' And so he will believe him. When the astrologer is not stable himself, how is he going to predict the future for you? He does not know how to look into his own future so how is he going to look into yours? When he wears worn out shoes, can you not realize how is he going to look into your future when he cannot see into his own? But they trap greedy people. Just look at the vast influence these astrologers have. Even powerful managers and CEOs believe in them. How can you believe in them? How can you let them into your home? If you let them enter your home, there will be grief, so you must not let them in. Yes, you can tell them they are welcome as any other guest but not in the capacity as astrologers. Come but do not start looking at horoscopes or do any fortune telling. Leave things the way they are. Do not adulterate what is going on. No one knows what is going to happen, so how can they?
Nishankata: total absence of suspicion
Therefore when suspicion arises, you will experience misery. If a person does not know how to read account books, a prof it of six hundered thousand may look like a loss of four hundred thousand to him. His ignorance of how to read financial statements is the reason for his misery. That is how the world is. The pain and suffering is from not being able to read the 'ledger book' (of karmic accounts). Otherwise, there is no pain or suffering in this world.
The whole world lives in the atmosphere of suspicion, this will happen and that will happen! Why do you fret unnecessarily? Nothing is going to happen. Why not sleep peacefully instead of tossing and turning needlessly? The faith you have placed in yourself, 'I am this body', is one hundred percent wrong. Nothing is going to happen and yet just look at the amount of fear and anxiety people have. As if they are going to take something with them when they leave this world.
The whole daylong they fret; "What is going to happen, what is going to happen?' Hey! What is going to happen? This world has never fallen off. When the world falls, so will the God. And that is not going to happen.
What was that village in U.P. (the state of Uttar Pradesh) that we came to at midnight, on our way to the pilgrimage in Nepal?
