Worries
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but not worries. And for the one for whom the Soul is everything,
what does he have to worry about?
Questioner : What is tension? I understand what worry
is, now please explain tension?
Dadashri : Tension is similar but not quite the same as
worry. The pull in tension is many sided where as in worry you
are totally involved in one issue thinking that to be everything.
Example of tension: ‘what will happen if this job does not work
out? Here my wife is sick, what will happen to her? The children
are not going to school properly, what will happen to them?’
Tension is all these kinds of pulls. I have not had tension for
the last twenty-seven years, since my spontaneous Self realization.
Now there is a lot of difference between being careful
and worrying. Carefulness is awareness and to worry is to have
anxieties, which eat you up from within.
Normality liberates
Questioner : Is dependency and worry the same thing?
Dadashri : Worry is above normal egoism and
dependency is not ego. Dependency is helplessness, whereas
worry is above normal egoism. You have worries when egoism
becomes above normal, otherwise there would not be any
worries. Who cannot sleep at night in this house? You could say
that it would be the person with the most ego.
The use of egoism is permitted, but not the ego which
becomes above normal. It is wrong to worry and the result will
be a birth in the animal kingdom.
Questioner : What is the solution to stop worrying?
Dadashri : Turn around. Let it go. Negate it and try out
a way without egoism. The other way is to become ego-less.