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becomes free of suspicions. The final suspicion would not go
away simply from reading books, would it?
Dadashri: There is nothing in the books and you will not
get anything out of them in this regard. Can you taste sweetness
by merely reading the sentence, ‘Sugar is sweet,’ in a book?
What good does it do for you? Would the experience of
sweetness not come only when you put sugar in your mouth?
Questioner: So one cannot find a human being in whom
God has manifested and the scriptures do not work. Does that
mean that one has to wander around life after life?
Dadashri: Yes, one has to wander, that is all.
Questioner: From one shop to another, and from that
one to another.
Dadashri: Yes, one has to wander around, shop after
shop.
Questioner: And the more shops we wander, the more
the stock that is filled from other shops.
Dadashri: Yes, that increases. And suspicions like, ‘Will
I get it from here or will I get it from there?’ keep on increasing.
Only when one finds the ultimate shop, will he find the solution.
In that shop, all suspicions about everything will depart.
Knowing causes suspicion
When does suspicion arise? If a person reads too much,
it creates projections of intellect, which leads to entanglements
and confusion. That confusion leads to suspicions and they will
not let him come out of the worldly life. Suspicions arise from
the familiarity of reading scriptures for many life times. Therefore
the more one reads, the more it troubles him. This kind of
knowing, the Lord has referred to as ‘overwiseness’.
If you are a lawyer, then the overwiseness of being a
lawyer will bother you. If your wife buys sugar in the black