Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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because others say so? 'We have never said anything about anybody and 'we' will never do so. 'We do not interfere. Who would want to take on the liability? You should never be suspicious about anyone's character. It carries a great danger: 'We never become suspicious. Why should 'we' take on the liability? How much strain should you put on your
eyes in the dark? Questioner: What adjustment should one take if he has developed a habit of viewing everything with suspicion (shankashil)?
Dadashri: When you see inappropriate conduct in someone, was it not there before? Do you think it has come about all of a sudden? So you should understand that this is what the world is all about. You should never judge anyone's character in these times of Kaliyug. It is like this everywhere in the current time cycle. It may not be clearly visible but the mind will become ruined for sure. In all this, a woman's character is a museum filled with illusion (moha) and deceit (kapat), and that is why they are born as women. The best way amidst all this is for one to become free from all sexuality.
Questioner: We realize that is the way it is in sexual conduct, nevertheless, when the mind becomes suspicious, one becomes engrossed (tanmayakar) in it. What adjustment should one take there?
Dadashri: After becoming the Self, do not get involved in anything. All that (suspicions etc..) belongs to the foreign department', to the non-Self. You should remain in the 'home department' (the Self). Stay in your real Self! You will not find Gnan such as this again so get your work done. One man constantly used to be suspicious about his wife. 'We asked him why he was suspicious about his wife. Was he suspicious because he saw something? And if that was the case, was the
same thing not going on before he witnessed it? People call a person who gets caught stealing, a thief, but those who do not get caught are thieves from within, are they not? Here people only label the ones who get caught as thieves. Why are you calling them thieves? In fact they are trivial thieves because they get caught. Do you think those who steal on a regular basis are likely to get caught?
Questioner: But it is when one is caught stealing, that he is called a thief.
Dadashri: No, the ones who steal occasionally are the ones who get caught. And because they are caught, people call them thieves. The real thief is the one who does not get caught, but this is how the world is.
So this man understood our' whole Vignan. Then he tells me, 'From now I will not be alarmed even when someone puts his arm around my wife.'Yes that is how it should be if you want to go to moksha! Otherwise, you will keep quarreling with your wife. Your wife can never be your wife in this current time cycle of dushamkaal (aka as Kaliyug, this current time cycle is characterized as a time of lack of unity in people's thoughts, speech and action; an era of moral and spiritual decline) and it is futile to even expect that. This is the dushamkaal, she is yours as long as she stays with you and cares for you otherwise she is someone else's if she cares for another.
That is why 'we' have told all the mahatmas, not to harbor suspicions. 'We also ask them why would they take things for granted and believe everything true just because they have not witnessed anything in this current time cycle Everything is hollow and without substance to begin with. If 'we' were to describe to you what we have seen, no man would be living. Therefore, in this time cycle, there is nothing better than to be alone and be pleasantly absorbed in living alone. Furthermore, if one has this Gnan, then there is nothing better.