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The infinite sky can be seen with a small eye! Similarly, this inner eye, "gadashti", as it opens, unfolds, and expands, its field of vision increases, becoming wider and wider, and ultimately, with the opening of complete vision, infinite "darshan" is experienced. But whatever little or much is seen, it is all called "darshan" or "dashti"; there is only a difference of degree, not a difference in darshan. The nature of this darshan is one. Therefore, according to the sutra "rat pravachanam", the word "drishti" has been used in the singular. Thus, gadashti or darshan is one, but its divisions have been made according to the degree of its unfolding. When is this darshan or dashti said to be open? Its clear limit has been shown here: when there is faith in sat-shastra. Conversely, the knowledge that is without sat-shraddha, or the knowledge that is based on asat-shraddha, which is a mere imagination, cannot be called "dashti" or "darshan", because just as there is only blindness, not sight, not darshan, until the eye opens, similarly, until the inner vision opens, unfolds, and is free from the belief in sat-shastra, there is only dashti-andhpan, not sight, not darshan. This jiva is compared to a person with eye disease. A person with eye disease cannot open his eyes, he keeps them closed, and he does not even like the light. If an expert eye specialist treats him properly, applies collyrium, and gives him medicine, then gradually, there is a possibility of his eye disease being cured. Until he gets the right medicine from the right specialist, his disease will not be cured. Similarly, this jiva has been afflicted with a severe disease of dashti-andhpan, mithya-dashtipan. He has been lying with his eyes closed. He cannot even see the light of knowledge! Now, if he gets the right specialist, a sadguru, by the grace of great merit, and that sadguru diagnoses his disease properly and gives him the right treatment, applies the collyrium of knowledge, then gradually, the dashti-andh's vision will open, and ultimately, his eye disease will be completely cured. But the only condition here is that the sadguru, the specialist, must be found, and his medicine must be taken with firm faith, along with the proper diet and regimen. Only then will this great disease of atma-bhrant, the delusion of the self, be cured. This is how...