Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Dadashri: Yes, those are baseless suspicions. Two things happen in suspicions. First, it causes unhappiness and the other is that you bind a negative karma because of your suspicions. The law is that it takes 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. It will give rise to misery if they do.
Questioner: But in anything we do, do we not have to worry and think things through to ensure 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 (the one who has suspicions) and then it harms others. I had discovered from the very beginning that having suspicion is very harmful. Never have suspicions, even when knowing
everything That is why 'we' have never had any suspicions towards anyone. 'We will check everything out in minute details, but we 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 suspicions. 'We have not had any suspicion about anybody. 'We know everything: there is nothing 'we' do not know. 'We know everything about everyone down to his or her deepest levels. 'We' can see everything but 'we' do not have any suspicions. What good is suspicion?
Questioner: It is very harmful. Dadashri: What damage does it cause? Questioner: Does it not harm one's own self?
Dadashri: No, but how much happiness does it give? The moment suspicion enters one's mind it is the same as becoming possessed; "he has taken my things for sure!' enters your mind. Whatever is to become of the other person, let it be so, but you become possessed by suspicion in the process. This Dada is very particular; He will never have suspicions about anyone. He knows everything but He will not have any suspicions.
The 'doer' and the 'sayer' are separate
You will incur a great liability, and hence it is a tremendous fault to have any kind of suspicions in this worldly life. Nothing is gained by suspicion. Now that you have attained this Gnan, why not continue doing your work with a mind free of suspicions! If you employ the intellect you will ruin the work at hand and if you let it occur naturally (sahaj) then everything will work out on its own. Instead of doing your work with suspicion, it will work out better if you leave it alone and let it happen naturally; let it happen without employing any buddhi (intellect). No work is done if there is the slightest of suspicion.
Questioner: Still what should one do if suspicions (shanka) and negative suspicions (kushanka) keep occurring in any work?