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spoiled at all. It is only a matter of the Gnani Purush, setting right, the illusion (bhranti) that has befallen, which has distorted the vision (darshan); therefore it becomes free from effects and goes off to moksha (final liberation).
Now, how did that vision (darshan) become wrong? When you go to Northern India, you will come across many monkeys there. How do they catch them? They take a pot with a narrow opening, put some chickpeas (chana) in it and place it under a tree. The monkeys then come down the trees and stick their hands in the pots, to get the chickpeas. When they try to get to the chickpeas, they slowly squeeze their whole hand in the pot to get the chickpeas. But once they grab a fistful, because they cannot get their hand out again, they start screaming. Even then, they will not release their fist. What do they think? They keep thinking that someone inside is grabbing my hand. When I stuck my hand in there, I was me that stuck it in there, so why is it not coming out now? So the monkeys come under the illusion; they have the wrong understanding of 'someone has got hold of me from within'. And so they keep screaming, but they will not let go of their fist. Similarly, people are crying out and screaming but they will not let go of what is in their fist.
The Method for the Final Solution Is Different
It is like this: what is this vision (drashti) usually like? If you sit in such a way, you will see two lights instead of one. If your eyes just went slightly this way, would you not see two lights? Now realistically, there is just one. But you see two. When you drink tea in a saucer, you may see the circle inside it as double circles. Why is that? It is because we have two eyes, that we are seeing double. These eyes are seeing, and the other eyes are seeing as well. However it is a false vision (mithya drashti). And that is why it shows you everything wrongly. Now if it showed you what is right, you would be free of affliction from external sources (upadhi), you would be free from all suffering from the outside. The science of those who are absolutely
