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12 Worries Questioner : Air and water. Dadashri : Only air, not water. The government has no control at all over air. You can obtain it everywhere, wherever you look, wherever you go. Look at how much protection nature gives you. You are a guest of nature and by being a guest, you are complaining and worrying? Then nature will think that although this person is my guest, he does not know how to live like a guest. Some people go into the kitchen and tell the hostess to put more salt in the soup. How can you enter your host’s kitchen when you are a guest? You should eat whatever you are served. How can we go to the kitchen when we are the guests? Air, the most precious of them all, is free. What comes next? Next, comes water, for which you have to pay a little, and then third comes food, which too has to be paid for. Questioner : Light. Dadashri : Light is always there! Sun is always there to serve you and is present at dawn everyday. No Trust Anywhere These people of India worry so much and have so much anxiety. If ever the sun decides to take a break for a day and says, “I will never take a vacation again,” the next day these people will start doubting whether they will see daylight again. They do not even trust nature. They do not have faith in themselves, God, or their wives. They do not trust anything. Self - invited worries After seeing what the neighbours have, people start worrying. Our neighbour has a car and we don’t! How much do you need in life? You should decide once and for all what your needs are, (e.g. that there should be enough to eat and drink at home, that there is a home to live in and enough money to run the household). That much, you will definitely get. But