Flawless Vision

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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beliefs, which are intrinsically contradictory in nature. For the one who constantly feels a burden in this worldly life, does not like its bondage, who is desirous of liberation, it is important for him to know the realities of this world; such as who runs this world? How does it world run? What is bondage? What is liberation? What is karma? Etc.
There is no superior above you in this world. You, yourself are Parmatma (The Supreme), then who else can be higher than this. The root cause of all miseries of this worldly life that you have to endure is your own 'blunders' and 'mistakes. By not knowing your Real Self, and by believing that you are Chandubhai, just because others have said so, you have made the one fundamental mistake upon which a series of mistakes continue to take place.
There is no independent 'doer in this world. Everyone is a naimitic (instrument) doer. When several nimits come together, a single event takes place. People instead only blame the nimit that they can see. They see the nimit through their glasses of raag and dwesh (attachment and abhorrence) and consequently they increase their visual prescription of raag and dwesh.
No one can harm or harass anyone else in this world. The harassments you experience in your life is a result of your own harassment from your past life. When, at the root of everything is your own fault, does the entire world not become nirdosh (without faults)? Who can bother you if you destroy your own mistakes?
These people that harass you are visitors' that you have invited yourself. They come with as much force as you had initially exerted.
Those people who are without any faults can even walk through a town full of bandits and decoys and no one would harass them. Such is the power of a pure person (sheel-morally upright).
If you hurt someone, you are the culprit. The Gnanis can never hurt anyone; on the contrary they make everyone happy.
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The Gnanis have destroyed all their mistakes. The one who can destroy even a single mistake of his own can become Parmatma (Supreme Soul).
On what basis do these mistakes survive? It is because you support them by protecting them. You can increase the longevity of anger by twenty years when you make statements such as 'He would not shape up if I did not get angry with him'. Your mistakes will go away if you do not side with them. If however, you 'feed' them, they will make themselves at home and never move.
How can you destroy your mistakes? You can do so by doing pratikraman (apology coupled with remorse of any wrong doing) and by repentance.
The darkness of kashays (your internal anger, pride, attachment and greed) will not allow you to see your mistakes.
The world sleeps comfortably in bhaavnindra (delusion resulting in attachment and abhorrence), oblivious of the harm (spiritual regression) it causes. When one acquires Self-Realization, the bhaavnindra goes away and one becomes spiritually aware
Who protects the mistakes? It is the intellect (buddhi - rationalizing faculty of mind coupled with ego which shows profit and loss in worldly affairs). Like an attorney it argues in the favor of a mistake, and takes control of you (soul). This is how the intellect will come to reign, but when a person acknowledges and accepts his own mistake, there will be no support for that mistake and it will leave.
Those who show us our mistakes are very beneficial to us. What is better than having someone show you your mistakes, which otherwise you would have to make an effort to see?
Gnani Purush is open to the sky. He is like a child. Even a child can show the Gnani his mistakes, without any hesitation and the Gnani would accept.
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