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The Fault is of the Sufferer
Dadashri: It is not a satisfactory closure, but exactly
the way it is. This is not prearranged; this talk is not through
the intellect, it is through the ‘Knowledge of the Self.’
Today’s Culprit – the Robber or the Robbed?
Every day it appears in the news, ‘Today, in a taxi, two
people robbed this person.’ ‘Robbers tied up the owner of the
apartment, and carried out a robbery.’ After reading this, you
need not be scared, ‘What if I also get robbed?’ This suspicion
is itself an offense. Instead of that, just proceed in a manner
that is natural and spontaneous! If it is in your karmic account,
then someone will take it away, otherwise, there is no father
figure out there interested in your affairs! Therefore, you
should go about fearlessly. The newspaper writers will write
things. Does that mean you should get scared? It is a good
thing that divorces happen at a low rate. If divorces were to
start happening at a higher rate, then everyone’s suspicion of,
‘What if I also end up getting divorced?’ would get support.
At a place where a hundred thousand people are robbed, you
should not be fearful. There is no father figure out there who
is superior to You.
Is it the robber who suffers, or the one who has been
robbed that suffers? Check and see, ‘Who is the one suffering?’
If you came across robbers and they rob you, then do not cry
after the fact, move on!
The world is not for suffering pain, it is for enjoying
happiness. The magnitude of karmic account one has that
much he will face. Some people experience only happiness.
Why is that? Some experience only pain. Why is that? It is
because one has brought forth such karmic accounts.
‘The fault is of the sufferer.’ If just this one phrase is
written and displayed in the home, then at the time of suffering,