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Aptavani-6
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He who starts seeing his own mistakes - when he sees five or so of them - should realize that now the solution has begun.
As many mistakes that are seen, that many mistakes leave. One may say that he keeps seeing the same mistake repeatedly. Actually, the same mistake does not come again: just as the onion has layers, each mistake has many layers. Therefore, when one layer is removed with pratikraman, another layer is there; however, the same layer does not come back. For example, if there were thirty layers, then twenty-nine will remain. When another layer goes away, twenty-eight will remain. In this manner, they will decrease to a point where the mistake is completely
gone.
The Self is the Light that Never Gets
Stained, Even when there is Oneness with the Prakruti, the Relative Self
Know what the original root fact is. What is the main fact? This human life is meant just for knowing this fact only. You just have to know what is ours and what is not in all this. Then you can lament and cry if you want to. We have erred in our own world. It would have been different if we were in someone else's world.
Questioner: How is this 'our' world at all?
Dadashri: Then whose is it? By 'ours' it means no one is our owner, no one is our superior. The world is ours indeed. It is worthwhile if you take the advantage of seeing this world and knowing it.
Questioner: When we revert into 'seeing' and 'knowing.' we get entrapped and entangled within.
Dadashri: The one who becomes entangled is not 'You.' The belief, 'This is me, and I am entangled' is verily the mistake.
How wonderful nature appears when you see' and 'know. But when one has worries, he does not see nature, does he? The gardens may be beautiful but they seem like poison to him. The world is forever beautiful; how wonderful these cows and buffalos look! But by associating with human beings, they have problems.
Questioner: Do cows and buffalos realize that humans