Worries Worries | Page 35

Worries 25 you cause suffering to your self. Worries bind obstructive karma Through worries, you bind obstructive karma, which prolongs the work at hand. If someone tells you that at such a place you will find a boy for your daughter, then you can make an effort to meet him and his parents, but you are not to worry about this. God tells you not to worry. Worries cause more obstructions. The Vitarag Lord has asked, “Are you the one running this world? You are the owner because you are doing the worrying.” When you really look at it, you do not even have the independent strength to evacuate your bowels. You have to call a doctor when you are severely constipated. Until then, you feel that everything is under your control, but that strength is not yours. Should you not know whom the strength belongs to? Who runs all this? Is someone else running it or are you running it? Scientific circumstantial evidences Who is the doer? The circumstances are the ‘doer’. All these scientific circumstantial evidences come together and an event takes place. So the control is not in our hands. We must simply observe the circumstances and see what they are. Once the circumstances come together, the work gets accomplished. It is wrong for a person to expect rain in the month of March. On June 15 th (when the monsoon rains are due in India), the circumstances come together. If the circumstances of time are right and yet the circumstance of clouds is not there, then how can it rain? When the clouds are present, the timing is right, there is lightening and when all the other evidences come together, it will rain. All the ci