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that it is your fault, if you are affected by it.
The one who suffers the most in this world is indeed the one with the most faults. In any situation you only have to see who is suffering and realize that the one who suffers is the guilty one.
One who endures the bitter fruits is verily the doer. Doership is nothing but ego.
If your fingers get caught between the gears of a machine that you invent, it will not let you go, although it is your own invention. Even if you plead with it, it will not let go. It will let you know that since you are suffering, you are the one at fault. Similarly every one around you is a machine. People are like the gears, if they were not, no husband or wife would cause unhappiness for each other. Everyone would make his or her home a happy place to live in. But that is not the case. All these children, husbands and wives are like the gears in a machine.
Natural justice punishes only the guilty one. A snake will bite only the guilty one even if there are seven other people sleeping beside him. That is how 'vyavasthit' all this is.
No court judge is required to rule where the natural law of fault is of the sufferer' is applicable. Why should anyone be summoned to arbitrate here? All the worldly judges do is listen to complaints from both sides, then reprimand them for making mistakes in spite of their intelligence. All the judges do is cover up their own reputation and expose others.
There are no judges where the natural laws are concerned. But in the worldly life, people themselves are the judge, the lawyer and the jury all rolled into one. Therefore they will always rule in their favor. This way they are always making mistakes. From whom should justice be sought? From a Gnani Purush who is impartial, even towards his own body. But the one who
is a judge, a lawyer and a juror, will only rule in his own favor. This is how one continues to be bound. The judge within will say that he has made a mistake, the lawyer within will never let him admit his own mistake and in this way, he creates bondage for himself. For the sake of your own spiritual progress and your soul, it is imperative that you find out who is the one responsible for making mistakes that create bondage. It is the sufferer that is at fault for making mistakes. He or she is at fault. From the worldly perspective it appears that the victim has been wronged or unjustly punished but in the Lord's eyes, "The fault is of the sufferer'. Dada has seen exactly this in his Gnan : The fault is of the sufferer'.
"Fault is of the sufferer' - if one were to completely understand this statement, one would attain liberation. To see faults in others is absolutely wrong. You encounter your nimit (those who transgress against you - these beings are merely nimits-instrumental in delivering the fruits of your own karma), solely because of your own mistakes. And if that nimit happens to be a living entity, you place the blame on them, but what would you do if the nimit were a thorn? A thorn is lying on the ground where hundreds of people walk by and it hurts no one. And yet when Chandubhai passes by, the thorn pricks him even when it is laying side ways. Vyavasthit is very precise. The thorn will prick only the one that has to be pricked. Vyavasthit brings together all the circumstances in order for an event to occur. How then can a nimit be blamed?
If someone sprays a medicine that makes you cough violently, it will upset you and you will get angry with him, but do you get angry when you cough when someone is cooking chili peppers? You get angry with the one you catch, the nimit. But if you were to know the facts about who the doer is and why things happen, would there be any more problems?
Whose fault is it if you walk on wet slippery soil with
