When one suspects, suffering occurs right away. But, at
the same time, a new seed is sown that will bring suffering even
in the next life!
Suspicion is removed by doing proper pratikraman. One
has to repent against suspicion. One should not become careless
about it. The one who did the suspecting, the one who was in
violation, should be made the doer of repenting.
After becoming the Self, if the mind shows disorderly
things inside, how can we listen to it? All feelings of attachment
are the qualities of the innate self, they are inanimate qualities,
relative qualities; they are not the qualities of the pure Soul at all.
You are the owner of infinite powers, how can anyone do
anything to You? This fearlessness results in a state that is free
of all suspicion.
It is necessary only to raise awareness against suspicion.
The knower-seer state can only be maintained if there is
awareness and consequently all suspicion is eradicated.
When someone suspects you, it is not unfounded. There
is some fault on your part there. The fault may not have
occurred now; it may be from the past, but only then would this
happen. The world has never been outside the law of nature, not
even for one second.
Only the Gnani Purush can create suspicion over illusory
wrong knowledge (mithya-gnan). And that knowledge will be
gone once there is suspicion about it. There is never any
suspicion about real knowledge.
“Who am I?” One has never suspected or questioned his
real identity or his state of being the owner of the name in any
past lives. That is where one has to have suspicion. If suspicion
is created about one’s own deep-rooted wrong beliefs, it is
called the beginning of realization of the Self.
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