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suffering he has to endure is correspondingly proportionate to the lack of awareness (ajagruti).
Opposing suspicion about the other person Questioner: If someone is suspicious about me, how can I solve the problem?
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Dadashri: If you have knowledge of his suspicion towards you then you should forget about that knowledge. That knowledge should be forgotten. How do you know whether he has suspicions about you or not?
Questioner: What if he tells me directly on my face that he has suspicions about certain things about me?
Dadashri: If he tells you on your face then tell him, 'You have the suspicion. You will suffer from it. If you keep suspecting, you will be the sufferer.' Just say this much and whatever happens after that, what can you do? No one will be suspicious of you if your conduct is good. That is the principle of the world. Your conduct had been inappropriate sometime or other in the past and that is why the suspicion is there. It is as if a person made a mistake when he was twenty-five years old but his case is heard in court when he is sixty. That is how everything is. Therefore, whenever a person has suspicion about you, it is your own fault.
Questioner: Do I have to ask him why he is suspecting
me?
Dadashri: There is no joy in asking. You should not ask. You should immediately realize that it is your own fault. Otherwise, why would he have suspicion? Many people are suspected of stealing things even though they do not steal. Therefore, they must have been thieves in their past. Otherwise, suspicion would not arise.
Questioner: What can I do if the other person sees it
that way?
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Dadashri: No, the faulty vision is not of the other person. It is the result of your own mistake. The world is not so unjust that others will see you with suspicion if you are innocent. The world is absolutely just; it is just every second.
Applying the principle, Fault is of the sufferer' will solve this problem. You have to 'see' who is suffering: the one suspecting or the one being suspected.
Questioner: My understanding is that all these questions and suspicions arise because one is not following the five Agnas of Dada properly.
Dadashri: Yes, otherwise they will never arise. There is nothing if you practice the five Agnas. Any deficiency in practicing the Agnas will give rise to those things. Thousands of people who practice these Agnas live in internal and external harmony (samadhi).
The world remains suspicion less where suspicion is needed
There is only one place where there is a need for suspicion and that is to question yourself 'Am I really Chandulal?' that is the only suspicion you need to continue to have. That is not suicide.
Questioner: Suspicion on, I am Chandulal'...
Dadashri: Then your work is done. Nobody has this suspicion, even when I question them repeatedly about who they are, they just tell me, I am Chandulal.' This suspicion about their identity never arises, does it?
When I keep stirring this issue, then the suspicion arises and one starts to think, 'What Dada is saying is correct; there is some truth in it.' Otherwise, one will never begin to have suspicions about his real identity.
Questioner: Is it necessary for that suspicion to arise before one can progress further?
