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required to melt iron with the gaze of the eyes (i.e. it is impossible). Whereas the rope of Gnan is without limits, and so there is no question of it breaking. Gnan will take you all the way. My Gnan is such that it leaves nothing for you to tolerate. It is freedom filled with bliss. At the same time you will also recognize that your pending accounts are being paid off and you are becoming free.
The vision that sees the fault of the self, is right vision (samkit), and defines the right path to liberation. If you get on the right path just once, your worldly 'shop' will begin to empty. The one on the right path will always see his own faults, whereas the one on the wrong path will disregard his own dirty laundry and will volunteer to wash other people's laundry.
I have personally seen in Gnan what has bound this world. One is bound by one's own faults.
What final vision will be required for liberation? It will be when your vision becomes flawless, i.e. when you do not see faults in anyone, be assured that your work for liberation is done. With such a vision you will not only cease to see faults in people, but you would not even make comments such as this tree is growing crooked'! (find faults with everything needlessly). Moah! Just let things be. This is all you have done for countless lives.
Svacchand: Following Your Own Intellect In Spiritual
Matters There is one trait within you called svacchand. Svachhand means to have and do everything your own way, this zealotry and stubbornness is such a fault that it will never let you achieve liberation. The balance sheet of your past infinite births is the 'ledger' of karmic accounts of your relative self. Is this all you have earned so far since eternal times? From all eight categories of karma you have bound, were you not able to get even a drop of this infinite knowledge? Of all the realization you have had, you have not acquired even a drop of this permanent bliss. Worldly happiness that you experience is a false projection and it is a false belief; it is not the real happiness. For liberation you cannot get by with merely a false belief of moksha, it has to be the real thing. Imaginary liberation will not do, you need real liberation. There is no superior that dictates over you. When you realize this, you will feel liberated.
Svacchand means 'to make your own medicine for yourself. It is like diagnosing your own ailments, making your own medicine and prescribing it to yourself. And lo and behold, you make your own medicine for liberation also? That is why it has become a poison for you. That is precisely why when someone compliments you, your attachment increases and if someone criticizes you, you feel abhorrence. Svacchand has no place in religion or in religious austerities and rituals or in understanding the scriptures. Any following of scriptures performed with svacchand will not do. Do not be guided by your own intellectual understanding or imagination in spiritual matters. You go around being the judge, the lawyer and the culprit. Svacchand means self-guided thinking, interpretation and action according to your own intellect. Svacchand will lead you to your doom. Svachhand will destroy you spiritually.
If you grasp just two of my keys as follows, you can achieve the right vision (samkit):
1. The mind is made of tubers. It is not a part of your Self. If you try to control it, it will challenge you. Once you know that it is merely composed of tubers formed in the past life, then nothing needs to be done!
2. Fault is of the sufferer.
