Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Aptavani-9
A man hears a story about someone being possessed by a ghost. His wife has gone to visit her parents and he is sleeping alone in his room at night. While he is asleep, around midnight, a mouse makes a noise in the kitchen. He hears the noise and remembers the story about the ghost, so with these two evidences coming together, he thinks something must be there to make such a loud noise. Therefore, the doubt (vahem) remains until he discovers the truth. He will remain in this state until he has knowledge, which is contrary to the knowledge he already has. Then when his friend comes around the next morning, he gets the courage and tells his friend about how scared he was the night before. When his friend tells him to check into the noise, he goes in the kitchen and finds that a mouse had dropped a tin can and a few other things. Then all his doubts (vahem) go away. Therefore, it is because of a wrong understanding that one is not able to sleep at night. But if he has a medicine to remove his doubt (vahem), would he not be able to sleep? So the man will become happy if he understands a little bit. It all depends on the sub-atomic particles
(parmanus) Suspicion that arises is a stock within. Suspicion is a feminine element (streetatva). In every human body there are three kinds of parmanus (subatomic particles); female (stree), male (purush) and bisexual (napunsak). The body is made up of these three types of parmanus. One is born a male when there is an aggregation of predominantly male parmanus. If there is a higher proportion of female parmanus, one is born a woman and neutral when there are more neutral parmanus. Within any body there are more or less these three types of parmanus. Vahem (doubt), sandeha (dubiousness), shanka (suspicion) etc. are all female parmanus. You have to tell them, 'Get out! I am a Purush (the Self)!' 'We' do not have such parmanus so 'we' never have any suspicion or become suspicious.
Does suspicion result in prejudice?
You should never become suspicious even when you have witnessed something yourself. Nothing haunts a person as much as suspicion. You should never have suspicions. Uproot suspicion the moment it arises by saying, 'Dada has said 'no' to it. Even if someone says, 'I have seen this man take money out of someone's pocket yesterday with my own eyes. He is back again today, you should not be suspicious. Instead of becoming suspicious, create a safe side for yourself. Otherwise, it is a form of prejudice. Today that person may not be that way. Many will never steal again. Circumstances force some people to steal, they steal out of necessity and then you may not see them doing so even if you leave money around.
Questioner: And yet some are seasoned thieves! They have made a profession of stealing
Dadashri: Such thieves are different altogether. When they are around, you have to hang your coat somewhere safe. Nevertheless, you must not call him a thief. Although you do not call him a thief to his face, you are calling him so in your mind, are you not? You incur a liability when you call him a thief in your mind but if you say it to his face, then you are not liable. If you call him a thief to his face, he will beat you up and that liability is a gross physical liability; an external liability. You are liable for saying it in your mind (liable in two ways; firstly for the adverse mediation and secondly for binding new karma). So then what should you do?
Questioner: One should not keep it in his mind, nor should he take the punishment.
Dadashri: Yes, or it is better to tell him on his face. He will curse you and go away. But there is a danger for what is kept in your mind. So what is best? The best thing is to neither keep it in your mind nor say it to his face. To keep it in your mind is what the Lord calls prejudice. A person steals due to