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The Flawless Vision
The Flawless Vision
Ten Reduced to One
you eventually find a solution?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: Does anyone come to give you this insight? This intuition is the only power within you that has the potential to liberate you. Every living being is endowed with the power of intuition.
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Even a cow that is trapped will find a way out because of the intuition within her. You can increase this power by destroying your mistakes. The more mistakes you destroy the stronger this internal power will become. When you confess your mistakes, your strength begins to grow. How Can You Lose Your Reputation When You Never
Had One to Begin With? Can people not at least tell that they have done something wrong when they get angry? They realize that they have overreacted. This means that they understand their mistake. If a guru is angrily scolding his disciple and a nobleman asks him why he is venting so much anger, the guru tells him that his anger is justified because his disciple deserves it. The fool! He knows that he is doing something wrong when he gets angry and yet he covers up his mistake. Instead he should admit that he made a mistake and that he will not repeat it. Thus he will overcome his mistake.
Why should you defend your mistakes in the presence of certain people? Is it to preserve your reputation? Do you not know that those very people have no reputation to speak of? People in the guise of a façade portray a reputation, otherwise what reputation do they have? Do you see anyone here with a reputation?
The world is relative'. It is interactive socially. You cannot utter a single word to anyone and if you practice absolute humility then you must not even look at other person's fault. It is not worth finding faults with anyone in this world. You do not know the consequences of doing this.
When you continually criticize and find fault in others you are suffering a loss. It is like giving a ten-rupee note and getting a rupee back for it. Why waste energy in doing something when you get nothing in return? When you engage in criticisms you are dissipating your own energies. If you know that what you are crushing is sand and not sesame seeds, why would you waste your time and energy to grind it? When you criticize others, you are in fact washing their clothes, while you soil your own. When will you clean up your mess?
Do not look at anyone's negative qualities. If you must, then look at your own. How does it affect your mind when you look at people's faults? And how does it affect your mind when you look at people's virtues? Do you not feel glad?
You Are the Cause of All Suffering The other person is never at fault in any way. His belief is that the world is the source of all happiness, and that is correct. If you try to convince them otherwise, the fault is yours. People have a tendency to find fault in others. No one is at fault. Whatever unhappiness you experience, arises within you. People around you, such as your family, strive to make you happy. Your wife takes so much care when she cooks for you. You are not even aware of the painstaking effort your family makes in order to put food on your table. Each morsel of bread you eat is made from flour, which they themselves grind from wheat. Prior to grinding