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awareness, new faults will not arise and the old ones will dissipate. You have to be aware of how faults arise. As Many Faults: That Many Pratikramans Are Needed
If you are a vessel of infinite faults, you will have to do that many pratikramans (the process of recalling, repenting and asking for forgiveness with the avowal to not repeat an act of aggression through thoughts, speech or action). You will be able to see all the faults that you have brought with you after the Gnani Purush gives you Gnan. Ignorance (of the Self) prevents you from seeing your faults. To see the fault of others is the wrong vision (mithyatva).
The Vision towards One's Own Faults Within
After you attain this Gnan, you will see negative thoughts as well as positive ones. There is no attachment towards good thoughts and no abhorrence for the bad ones. Since it is not under your control, it is not necessary for you to look at what is good and what is bad. So what do the Gnanis look at? They look at the world as flawless. The Gnani Purush knows that everything that happens in the world is a discharge. He knows that the world is not to be blamed. Even the insults that you encounter or your dispute with your boss are simply the discharge of past karma; your boss is only an “evidentiary instrument” (nimit) in the process. No one in the world can be blamed. All the faults that you see are your own, and these are the mistakes, and it is because of them, that the world exists. Vengeance is caused by seeing faults of others.
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