Book Title: Aptavani 09
Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

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________________ Questioner: Often problems arise at work and they are such that we begin to have suspicions about certain people and that causes continous unhappiness within. Dadashri: Yes, those are baseless suspicions. Two things happen in suspicions. First, it causes direct unhappiness and the other is that you bind a negative karma because of your suspicions. The law is that it will take one to a birth in the lower life form. Questioner: But at work when we have to construct a road or a bridge, do we not have to account for all the safety factors? If we don't, the bridge may collapse. It is not acceptable for us to be unaware and build a bridge, is it? Dadashri: That is correct. Keep all the safety factors but having done that, suspicions must not arise again. If they does, it will give rise to misery. Questioner: But in anything we do, do we not have to worry or take into consideration that the other person does not make any mistakes? Dadashri: Yes, you have all the freedom to think but not to be suspicious. Think as much as you want, even if you want to spend the whole night thinking but do not become suspicious because there is no end to it. Suspicion is endless whereas thoughts will end. The mind becomes tired does it not? The mind gets tired from thinking too much and so it will stop on its own. Suspicions do not get tired or exhausted. Suspicions will be about one person or another, so do not have any suspicions. There is no other misery like that of suspicion. Suspicion first harms the owner and then it harms others. I had discovered from the very beginning that being suspicious is very harmful. No suspicions ever, even while knowing everything That is why 'we' have never had any suspicions towards anyone. 'We will check everything out in minute details, but will never become suspicious. Those who have suspicions suffer. "We know everything but 'we do not have any suspicions. You should not have the slightest of

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