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There is no end to the endless activity and things that take place within, and you can tell who suffers inside. Sometimes the ego suffers; therefore the ego is at fault. When the mind suffers, the mind is at fault and when the chit suffers, the chit is at fault. It is possible to remain separate from your faults.
If you understand and hold on to just one word of the Gnani Purush, you will definitely go to moksha. With that you do not need anyone's advice. Whose fault is it? The fault is of the sufferer.
If the one dispensing justice were really alive (chetan), then he would take sides. But justice in this world is dispensed by nature and it is not alive (nischetan chetan). If you want to understand this in the worldly language, then it is like a computer. When you feed information into a computer, the computer may make mistakes, but there can never be any mistakes in natural justice. Nature's justice is dispensed by that which is not living and in addition it is vitarag i.e. without any attachment or abhorrence.
Absolute independence of all living beings
No one living being can hurt another. If one could, then you could say that this world is wrong and that the principle of this world is destroyed! If any living being has the independent power to interfere with or influence another, then all the principles of the world would be destroyed. This world is so perfectly independent that no one living being can do anything to another. Whatever you get at the hands of others; is your own fruit. It is the fruit of your own karma that you have to taste. Otherwise there is no superior above. If there were a superior at all, then no one would achieve liberation. No one can interfere with you. Your own mistakes are your superior.
Anyone who hurts you is just a nimit. Why was your pocket picked? The answer is that picking pockets is a viewpoint of the pickpocket, brought forth from his past life. He
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enjoys picking pockets and feels that this is all he wants to do. He believes in that business, so would such a business not have customers also? Nature's management is such that, whatever your business, it will find a 'customer' for you. Then whoever suffers, he is the one at fault. Mistakes made in darkness (ignorance, unknowingly) are exposed in the light of awakened awareness. They are exposed when one's pocket gets picked.
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Who can pick the pocket of the one who is not a thief? Who can hurt the one who does not have even a single parmanu (subatomic particle that cannot be further divided) of violence within him? Even a snake lying next to him would not touch him. If a sheelvan (a person in whom inner energies have fully expressed) walks through a room full of snakes, the snakes will scamper over each other in a rush to move out of his way or be destroyed. Such is the power and the aura of a sheelvan. And today people get bitten by mosquitoes even when they sleep under a mosquito net!
Whom does the Lord call a sheelvan? It is the one who has no intentions of hurting anyone through his mind, speech, body, kashays and the antah-karan (inner organ of mind, intellect, chit and ego). How can anyone in the world hurt such a person?
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