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suspicion causes interference and creates negative karmas. You
should remain in your non-suspecting state of the Self. The
world will constantly remain in a state of suspicion (shanka).
Excess intellect is harmful
Questioner : Dada, how can one decrease buddhi?
Dadashri : You need the power of samyak (right kind)
buddhi to reduce it.
Memory increases as buddhi increases and so does inner
turmoil. Buddhi is to be set aside and must never be heeded. If
there is one person in your vicinity that has caused problems for
you because you listened to him, then how long will you go on
listening to him? You may listen to him once or twice but then
you will not accept anything he tells you. Buddhi makes you
sensitive; it makes you emotional, so how can you accept it?
In your worldly interactions, one should have enough
wisdom to ensure that no one is harmed and that overwiseness
(akkal) is unnecessary. If a person becomes over wise, he will
lose his mind; he becomes stupid. So he should not be over
wise, excess buddhi should be removed. He needs to be wise
but not over-wise. When he becomes over-wise, he will start to
cheat and trick others. When he tricks someone he is using his
higher intellect to take advantage of those with lesser intellect.
Then what is the difference between you and a crook? Tricking
people is even more harmful than stealing from them. It carries
a greater liability as compared to stealing. The Lord has said,
“You will become merciless if you continue taking advantage of
people through your intellect.” It is better to hurt people
physically because some day you may even feel pity for the
person you hurt. Everyone in the world uses their intellect to hurt
others. It is considered the worst raudradhyan. The consequences
of this will be a life in hell. Raudradhyan means to deprive others
of their happiness or to hurt others by any means. When you sell