Worries
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country can only be used in that country. You will have to leave
your cars, your house, your business, and your wife and children
behind when you leave this world. During this final stage in your
life, no one will have the power to do anything. The only things
you will be allowed to take with you are your paap (bad deeds)
and punya (good deeds). To put it simply, a list of whatever
rights and wrongs you have done here, will accompany you.
The monetary earnings gained from those crimes will remain
here and the case will continue in the next life. As a result of
these accumulated karma you will acquire a new body and you
will have to start afresh to pay off the debts you created in your
this life. So why not wake up from the beginning? There is
tremendous happiness in the Self, the homeland. Unfortunately,
no one has ever seen the homeland.
When worries arise due to accounts receivable
At night everyone says, ‘It is eleven o’clock, go to sleep.’
On a winter’s night, you tuck yourself inside the mosquito net.
Everyone in the household has gone to sleep. Under the
mosquito net, you remember that you have to collect three
thousand rupees from someone and the due date has already
come and gone. You begin to wish you had made him sign a
promissory note and so you worry about it all night long. But
by worrying about it are you going to be able to have it signed
overnight? That would not be possible would it? So why not
go to sleep peacefully?
What is the root cause of Worries?
Worries that eat away at you are meaningless. They harm
your health and obstruct whatever is due to you. It is precisely
because of worries that such situations arise. One must think
about the good and the bad aspects of any situation, but there
is no reason to worry. This worrying is egoism. There should
not be any egoism. It is because of one’s false notion of, ‘I am