Worries

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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peacefully whatever you have been allotted?
this. It is only here. These worries are a net result of wholesale baggage of intellect in Indians. The worries are also available in wholesale. They are factories of worries. They also have huge fans running. They worry and also find solutions for them. What do they call that cooling equipment?
Human nature invites worries
Worries ruin the work. Worrying will reduce the quality of your work from one hundred percent to seventy percent. Worries obstruct work. If there were no worries, the end result would be wonderful.
Questioner : Air conditioner.
Dadashri : Yes, air conditioner. That is the wonder in India.
Questioner: Nowadays all the worries are in the comforts of an air-conditioned environment.
Dadashri : Yes, so they are always together. Airconditioning with worries. I do not need any air-conditioning.
These Americans do not worry excessively about their daughter after she turns a certain age. The Indians worry about their family for seven generations. This is what I call wholesale intellect and wholesale worries. All suffering is because of beliefs. There is this difference in the beliefs of foreigners versus Indians.
Have you received an extension for your life?
Everyone knows, we are going to die one day'. What do people do when they think of death? They push the thoughts away. 'What if something happens to me?' When such a thought enters a person's mind, he pushes it away. In the same token when worries come to you, you have to say, 'not here and push them away.
Worries always ruin things. When you drive a car worrying about your driving skills, you may cause an accident. If you worry while you are conducting your business, then you will do the wrong thing. Worry has been the cause of ruin for everything in this world.
You are going to live another two hundred years in this world, are you not? Haven't you taken an extension?
Questioner: How can one get an extension? I don't think that anything is under our control.
Dadashri : You are so right. If living were under one's control, one would never die. But life is forcefully taken away. What is the point in worrying if you cannot get an extension for a longer life? Instead why not enjoy
There is nothing worth worrying about in this world. To worry is the best foolishness' in this world. The world is not meant for worrying. Only human beings worry, no other creature worries. Billions of other life forms do not worry. Over wise humans worry all day long and roast in the oven of worry. Worry is pure egoism, nothing else.
Questioner : In this respect they are worse than the animals, aren't they?
Dadashri : Animals are good. They do not use their intellect to worry about their welfare. Those who use their intellect excessively to worry about their welfare suffer a