Aptavani-4
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You create obstacles for everything by yourself. Whatever
you have brought with you in your ‘receptacle of intellect’
(buddhi no ashaya), you will receive even without desiring it,
provided there are no obstacles against it.
There is everything in this world, but why do these things
not come to you? It is because your obstacles are hindering you.
Questioner: How do these obstacles happen?
Dadashri: If this man is giving out some snacks to
someone and you say, “Why don’t you leave it, it will only go
to waste,” you can say that an obstacle has been created. When
someone is donating some money and you say to him, “Why are
you giving him money? He is likely to squander it away,” and so
you create an obstacle towards charity. Then, regardless of
whether or not that person gives the money, you still created an
obstacle. Then, when you encounter difficult times, there will be
no one there to help you.
Questioner: What if the obstacles were not created
through speech, but through the mind?
Dadashri: The effect of spoken words is realized in this
life, and those drawn by the mind will come into effect in the
next life.
So all these obstacles have been created by one’s own
self; otherwise, is there anything that the Self does not have?
Everything in the world is ready, and waiting for it. “Can we
come, can we come?” they are asking. However, it is the
obstacles that tell them, “No, you cannot come.” So the
obstacles do not allow them to come to you.
Questioner: So we should stay vigilant (jagruti) that no
negative thoughts arise.
Dadashri: That cannot be possible. Negative thoughts
will not stop coming. You have to erase them, that is your job.