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deeper hole for yourself. They linger on for a much longer time.
You will not be able to crawl out of it.
Even if it is true do not harbor suspicion
All these miseries are caused by suspicions. Suspicion will
show you all kinds of things about a person when it arises. It will
say, ‘He did such and such a thing.’ That suspicion will then eat
you away from the inside. Even if the other person has indeed
done something wrong and suspicion (shanka) about him
bothers you, just tell the suspicion, ‘hey shanka, you leave. He
is my brother.’
Questioner: If a man swears at me, how can I believe
that he did not swear at me? How can I convince my mind of
this?
Dadashri: You can never say that anyway! How can you
when in fact he did swear at you. There is no question about it.
But what am I saying? Do not be suspicious of him.
Suspicion even after entrusting someone?
If you ask someone on the train to take care of five
thousand rupees for you so that you can use the restroom, what
should you do when a suspicion of ‘what if he runs away with
the money?’ arises while you are in the restroom? You should
tell the suspicion, ‘Go away, I have given the five thousand
rupees. What is done is done! If the money is meant to go, it
will go and if it is meant to stay, it will.’ Suspicion makes you
create unnecessary bondage by seeing faults in the other person.
And if a person were to give money to someone like me for
safekeeping, what would become of him if he were to have
suspicions about me? Therefore, this world is not worth being
suspicious about, over anything.
When you remember what you loaned.
When you are in bed and suddenly at eleven o’clock in