18 Worries
I am telling you this very subtle, yet very important fact concisely. To date, no man has been born in this world that has the independent energy to evacuate his own bowels. So what is all the egoism for? There is some other force and energy at work. This force is not yours; it is not under your control. You do not know what is under your control. You do not know your own strength and force. This is the reason why you become dependant on other forces. In fact, you and your entire life becomes dependant on forces that are beyond your control.
Worrying about your daughter’ s marriage
Here, people start worrying about the marriage of their daughter from the time she becomes three years old. Although she will not get married until she is twenty years old, they start to worry now. Is it written anywhere in the scriptures as to when one should begin to worry about their daughter’ s marriage? If she is to marry at the age of twenty, when should we start to worry? When she is two or three years old?
Questioner: When a girl becomes fourteen or fifteen years old, her parents would start thinking about it.
Dadashri: No, even at that she still has five more years to go. Perhaps within those five years, the one doing the worrying will die or the one for whom he is worrying will die. Who can predict? How can one worry five years in advance?
He even starts to worry after he witnesses other people worrying about their daughters.“ So and so is very worried about getting his daughter married, while I am doing nothing!” Then in a perpetual state of worry, he becomes like a watermelon. And when the time comes for his daughter to be wed, he doesn’ t have even five pennies to his name. Where can a worrying man get money?
You should start to worry about your daughter when