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What do I do when such things happen to me? I tell Ambalal, 'Ambalal, deposit it in your account. Your money has come!' Rather than incur a loss from suspicion, it is better to secretly deposit it in your account: do it discretely without the knowledge of the other person.
Suspicion and astrology 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? How is he going to look into your future, when he does not know how to look into his own future? When he wears worn out shoes, can you not realize that he cannot see into his own future so how is he going to look into your future? 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 guests 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 in the future, so how can he?
Nihshankta: total absence of suspicion
Therefore when suspicion arises, you will experience misery. If a person does not know how to read account books, he may see a profit of six hundred thousand as a loss of four hundred thousand. Then would he not remain miserable as long as he does not know how to read the ledger book? 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 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?
Questioner: It was Bareli.
Dadashri: Yes. The police officers and other people of Bareli told us to stop the bus. I asked them, 'What is the problem?' They told us not to go any further and to spend the night there because people were being robbed in the fifty-mile radius. So I told them, 'Let them rob us if they want to but we are going forward. Finally, they told us to take two police officers as escorts. I agreed and two police officers came with us with guns but nothing happened. It is very difficult for a circumstance of being robbed in a large group to occur and if it were meant to happen, then even if you make thousands of efforts to prevent it, your efforts would be in vain. So do not be fearful, do not become suspicious. No work can be successful until suspicions are removed. Nihshankta (absolute freedom from suspicion) is the state of the Self, and until that state is
