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from not being able to read the ‘ledger book’ (of karmic
accounts). Otherwise, there is no pain or suffering in this
world.
The whole world lives in the atmosphere of suspicion,
‘this will happen and that will happen!’ Why do you fret
unnecessarily? Nothing is going to happen. Why not sleep
peacefully instead of tossing and turning needlessly? The faith
you have placed in yourself, ‘I am this body’, is one hundred
percent wrong. Nothing is going to happen and yet just look at
the amount of fear and anxiety people have; as if they are going
to take something with them when they leave this world.
The whole daylong they fret; ‘What is going to happen,
what is going to happen?’ Hey! What is going to happen? This
world has never fallen off; when the world falls, so will God -
and that is not going to happen.
What was that village in U.P. (the state of Uttar Pradesh)
that we came to at midnight, on our way to the pilgrimage in
Nepal?
Questioner: It was Bareli.
Dadashri: Yes. The police officers and other people of
Bareli told us to stop the bus. I asked them, ‘What is the
problem?’ They told us not to go any further and to spend the
night there because people were being robbed in the fifty-mile
radius. So I told them, ‘Let them rob us if they want to but we
are going forward.’ Finally, they told us to take two police
officers as escorts. I agreed and two police officers came with
us with guns but nothing happened. It is very difficult for a
circumstance of being robbed in a large group to occur and if
it were meant to happen, then even if you make thousands of
efforts to prevent it, your efforts would be in vain. So do not be
fearful, do not become suspicious. No work can be successful
until suspicions are removed. Nihshankta (absolute freedom
from suspicion) is the state of the Self, and until that state is