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Aptavani-9
Questioner: A devotee of every God claims that his God
is the Supreme God.
Dadashri: That is exactly what should be said. If a
devotee does not say that, then I tell him, ‘Consider him
Supreme. He is higher than the one here.’ Then if he asks me,
‘Is the one here all right?’ I would reply, ‘That one is higher than
the one here.’ I had told a few devotees of one saint, ‘Brother,
go there because there it is higher than here.’ People will sit
there only if they consider him the Supreme; otherwise do you
think they will last there? They will keep having doubts and
suspicions wondering, ‘Is it this one or is it that one…is it this
one or is it that one?’
Questioner: So is he not likely to get hurt there? Surely,
any form of investigation has suspicion at its root?
Dadashri: You may inquire, think on it and then move
away. There is no need to bring suspicion into it. When does
suspicion arise? It arises when there is a break in their mutual
agreement resulting in a problem. Suspicion can never occur on
its own.
So where do we find suspicion? When there is a
connection between the two and when there is a deviation from
what one had ‘decided’ in that agreement between the two, it
gives rise to suspicion as to ‘what is all this?’ You should not be
suspicious for more than a minute. After that he should decide,
‘such is my vyavasthit’. Thereafter, there must not be any
suspicion. Suspicion means killing yourself.
Keep a medicine for suspicions
Questioner: What is it called when a person develops a
doubt (vahem) in his mind?
Dadashri: Where does it come from? Does it not have
to be exported from somewhere? Only then can it be imported
into us.