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here would recognize. 'We' too would know that a mistake occurred. The subtle mistakes can also be recognized through the intellect (buddhi). The subtler and subtlest mistakes can only be identified in advanced stages of Gnan. Human beings cannot see these subtler and subtlest mistakes. The celestial beings can see them if they look through knowledge beyond the senses (avadhi). However, these mistakes do not harm anyone. These mistakes still remain within me (Gnani) and that too because of the peculiarity of this current time cycle.
Blunders and mistakes
There are endless mistakes, not just one. One is bound by his blunders and mistakes. The mistakes will not go away unless his blunders are destroyed.
Questioner : What are blunders?
Dadashri : 'I am Chandulal' is the blunder. After 'we' give you the knowledge of the Self, your blunder will be destroyed and only your mistakes will remain. You will see those mistakes as gneya (that to be known). You become free from whatever gneya you 'see' as gneya. Mistakes have layers just like the layers of an onion. As you see a mistake, that layer of the mistake is discarded. When all the layers are shed, that particular mistake will be destroyed from its roots forever. Some mistakes have only one layer and no more, and so 'You' only have to see them once and they will be destroyed. You have to repeatedly see the ones with more layers and do pratikraman in order to get rid of them completely. Then there are some mistakes that are so sticky that they require repeated pratikraman. People may ask if you keep making the same mistake over and over and you will say yes, but you do not understand the reason behind this. Mistakes are in a form of layers; these layers can be endless. Therefore, if you do pratikraman for them whatever mistakes that become visible, will be purified. Krupaludev has said:
"I'am a vessel of infinite faults Oh Lord. If I do not see
them, then how will I attain salvation?" There are infinite mistakes and because they cannot be seen, they cannot be destroyed. If you do not have any mistakes within you, then do not sing, "I am a vessel of infinite mistakes...", otherwise you will become so. And if you have infinite mistakes then sing so. If you ask a wealthy Jain who goes to the derasar about his mistakes, he will say he has only a couple of mistakes; a little anger and a little greed that is all! Even the mistakes will know that he is being deceitful. That is why they remain ever fortified.
The biggest mistake of all is swachhand; to act according to one's own intellect and ego. An entire army of mistakes has arisen because of swachhand. The moment one makes a statement, 'So, what is wrong in what I am doing?' he is finished! He ruins endless lives thereafter.
With the grace and energy that the Gnani Purush bestows upon you, you will be able to see your mistakes and destroy them. 'We' tell anyone who wants to be free of mistakes, to stop protecting and feeding their anger, pride, deceit (illusion) and greed for the duration of only three years. Thereafter mistakes will die. The definition of a mistake is the protection of anger, pride, deceit (illusion) and greed. If mistakes are deprived of the food' of support and not given any protection for three years, they will leave you and go somewhere else.
Prakruti of a greedy person When a greedy person goes to the market he goes to the place where cheaper vegetables are stacked. The greed within him says, "This greedy man feeds me readily, so why not take refuge here?" Therefore in order to destroy his greed, the greedy person should go where the vegetables are expensive and buy them without asking the price. He should buy them even if he has to pay double the price. The greed within him will
