Aptavani-9
115
Dadashri: Yes, those are baseless suspicions. Two
things happen in suspicions. First, it causes unhappiness and
the other is that you bind a negative karma because of your
suspicions. The law is that it takes one to a birth in the lower
life form.
Questioner: But at work when we have to construct a
road or a bridge, do we not have to account for all the safety
factors? If we don’t, the bridge may collapse. It is not
acceptable for us to be unaware and build a bridge, is it?
Dadashri: That is correct. Keep all the safety factors but
having done that, suspicions must not arise again. It will give rise
to misery if they do.
Questioner: But in anything we do, do we not have to
worry and think things through to ensure that the other person
does not make any mistakes?
Dadashri: Yes, you have all the freedom to think but not
to be suspicious. Think as much as you want, even if you want
to spend the whole night thinking but do not become suspicious
because there is no end to it. Suspicion is endless whereas
thoughts will end. The mind becomes tired does it not? The mind
gets tired from thinking too much and so it will stop on its own.
Suspicions do not get tired or exhausted. Suspicions will
be about one person or another, so do not have any suspicions.
There is no other misery like that of suspicion. Suspicion first
harms the owner (the one who has suspicions) and then it harms
others. I had discovered from the very beginning that having
suspicion is very harmful.
Never have suspicions, even when knowing
everything
That is why ‘we’ have never had any suspicions towards
anyone. ‘We’ will check everything out in minute details, but we
never become suspicious. Those who have suspicions suffer.