________________ mind, without any hesitation. Samayik, pratikraman, sadhana, and worship performed without purifying the soul are valueless as enemies like ego, anger and deceit will keep attacking the mind time and again. One does not attain peace of mind in spite of performing many samayiks, pratikraman, sadhana and penance. The reason behind our failure is that we have not opened up before our Guru. The biggest advantage of confessing is that, one who opens up before a Guru, himself becomes a Guru in the future. THE BENEFIT OF AALOCHANA When an individual indulges in Aalochana, he does not bind karmas that will cause him to take birth in a family without religious virtues, a woman or as an impotent person. A child does not hide anything from his mother - he tells her everything. A genuinely virtuous person is like a child, innocent and humble. He will disclose his inner self before Parmatma without hiding anything. Our deficiency is that we have grown-up...we have lost our childhood. We reveal our unnecessary virtues and hide our vices which should, in fact, be revealed. In order to show the roots of a tree to others, the tree
