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non-partiality, only there, there is God and only there, there is liberation.
The one who is blind to the viewpoint of others can never know the Self. If you are dogmatic and insist upon only your own viewpoint, how can you accept the truth of others? And is your insistence over a permanent or a temporary thing? That which is needed is a permanent thing and yet you continue to be dogmatic about temporary things. Then how can you attain the Self? Become completely free from insistence of all kinds, except that for the Self. Only then will you realize the Self. Leave all other desires and become desirous of only knowing the "truth'. Only then will you attain the ultimate truth.
What are the characteristics of drashti-raag? Within it there is not a single attribute of vitaragta (absolutism, the state of enlightened world view). A man with drashti-raag will not understand what I say, whereas even the most uneducated person will.
Drashti-raag is the raag of all raags (attachment of all attachments). Only when it is destroyed from its roots can one understand the reality.
Animosity And Vengeance Questioner : If a snake comes to bite me, should I not kill it?
Fanaticism (Drashti Raag)
(Exclusive attachment to a particular viewpoint)
Dadashri : Why not move away from it? What do you do if a train is approaching you head on? You have to move aside. Similarly, move away from the snake.
Snake is a five-sensed life form. If you kill it, it will take its revenge from you in the next life. It will know that you hurt it without any cause and in your next life it will take revenge.
More harmful than dogma (matandha-blindness for other viewpoints) is the disease of drashti-raag (fanatic attachment to a viewpoint). This type of fanaticism prevails life after life, and only leaves after one meets a Gnani Purush. Until one acquires the right belief, blind faith prevails. It is said that the Lord is not so much against blind faith and beliefs, as he is against fanatic insistence on a faith. What is fanaticism? There are 360 degrees and for each degree there are infinite viewpoints. Exclusive attachment and insistence to any one particular viewpoint is drashti-raag. This drashti-raag is impossible to get rid of. Only after wandering for infinite life cycles when you meet a Gnani Purush, does this disease of drashti-raag becomes cured.
The entire world exists because of revenge. Even an ant feels that had it the strength and the power, it would harass you. Just switch on the light and see how the bed bugs run away frightened for their life. The bedbugs too fear that you will kill them but at the same time they also wonder why you kill them when all they do is eat their own food? The blood they suck from you is because of an account from your past life.
One's spiritual awareness is veiled because of one's fanaticism. Worldly attachment and abhorrence can be rid of but not fanaticism. There is no solution for it. Neither in the present life, nor in the lives to come will this disease disappear. It is incurable.
There are two kinds of bondage : one based on love and other on vengeance. There is reverence in the bondage of love, but the bondage of vengeance is what keeps the world bound. Love is sticky by nature and may dry up some day but vengeance only grows, increasing day by day.
