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your shoes and you fall? It is your own fault. Did you not know that walking bare feet would give you better traction? So who is to be blamed? The shoes, mud or you?
It is your fault if the person you are dealing with has a sulking face. If this happens, by recalling the pure Self within that person and asking for forgiveness in his name, you will be freed from that relationship of bondage created in your past life.
The one who is experiencing unhappiness is the one at fault and the one who is enjoying himself, happiness is his reward. The worldly law, which is with illusion, accuses the nimit. Nature's law, the real law, is very precise which nobody can change it. It accuses only the real culprit. There is no law in this world that can inflict undue suffering on anyone. Not even the govemment law. The fault lies with the one who suffers.
The severity of one's mistake can be assessed from the amount of suffering one has to endure.
In a family of ten, two have no idea about how the household is running. Two of the members think about helping out but only two other actually do. One of the family members is constantly preoccupied about how the household will continue to run and consequently cannot sleep at night, while the rest of them sleep soundly without a care. Now who is at fault, here? It is the fault of the one who suffers; the one who worries. Those who sleep have nothing to worry about.
If a mother-in-law scolds her daughter-in-law and yet the daughter-in-law remains happy and only the mother-in-law suffers, then the mistake lies with the mother-in-law. If someone in the family instigates a quarrel and the daughter-in-law has to suffer, the fault is hers. It is also her fault when others torment her without apparent cause. This happens because of a pending account from her past life, which has now come forth for
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The whole world belongs to you. You are the king of this entire universe. But you are bound only through your mistakes. Find out why you have to endure suffering! Your bondage is through your own mistakes and not through the mistakes of others. Liberation is achieved once these mistakes are destroyed. In reality You are free, but bondage is there because of your mistakes.
In the face of such a clear and pure law that I am showing you, where is the need for you to worry about what is just and unjust? What I am telling you is extremely profound; it is the essence of all scriptures. I am telling you exactly how nature's justice is served and that is through the principle of : The fault lies with the one who suffers.
Seeing Your Own Faults
People go to the derasar (temple) everyday and sing to the Lord :
"Full of infinite faults I am, O compassionate One!" And they sing further:
"How shall this frail ship' sail across, if these faults remain unseen?"
