Dadashri: Worries cause damage to work. Worries reduce the quality of work from 100 per cent to 70 per cent. Worries obstruct work. If there are no worries, the result will then be wonderful.

Everyone knows that they are going to die one day. What do people do when they remember (their inevitable) death? What do they do when they remember it? They push it away. When they have the thought: ‘What if something happens to me?’ They then push it away. Similarly, when worries arise within, push them away, saying: “Not here.”

It is always due to worries that everything gets ruined. If you drive a car when consumed with worries, there will then be an accident. If you worry while conducting your business, you will then do the wrong thing. Worry has been the cause of ruin for everything in this world.

There is nothing worth worrying about in this world. To worry is the ‘best foolishness’ in this world. This world is not meant for worrying. This (world) itself is a creation. God has not carried out this creation, therefore, this creation is not meant for engaging in worrying.

These human beings alone worry. No other creature worries. There are 84 million other living beings, but not a single one of them worries. These living beings called humans are overly wise, they are the only ones consumed by worries all day long!

Labourers do not worry, whereas businessmen worry. Labourers do not have a single worry. This is because labourers will be going to a higher life form (in the next life), whereas businessmen will be going to a lower life form. Worries result in a lower life form. Therefore, there should not be any worries.

Worrying is itself egoism. Why does this child not have any worry? It is because he knows: ‘I am not running this.’ He has no concern whatsoever about who runs this world. It is because one keeps saying: “I am doing this, I am doing this,” that worries arise.

If one resides in worldly life and is consumed by worry, and if that worry does not cease, so many lifetimes then remain for him! This is because it is indeed through worries that future lives get bound.

What Is Worry?: When a thought goes beyond a certain level ([threshold), it is worry. A thought arises with regard to any matter, and it reaches a certain level. That thought starts up a whirlpool, and you get sucked into the whirlpool. Then know that this has gone the wrong way, so, it has spoiled. Worry starts up from that point.

Excerpts from the book Worries

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