Flawless Vision

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

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slapped him instead. A person can only cheat you if and when your own past karmas come into effect. It is only the fruition of your past karmas coming into effect that allows the other person to be able to cheat you. How can you then blame the other person? On the contrary he became 'instrumental' in liberating you from your own karma.
The Consequence of Inciting Others
Questioner: Can a person be punished or held liable for others' mistakes?
Dadashri: No, no one else can be blamed. It is because of your own fault that the other person becomes your 'instrument'. The fault is of the sufferer. To do, to make others do and to instigate others into doing, will bind karma, which brings new results in next life. There is no effect without a cause.
Questioner: Can you explain what constitutes an instigation of karma?
Dadashri: If someone hesitates in doing something and you encourage him to do it, it is called instigation. The person who encourages the action bears a greater liability than the person who carries out the action. Who carries greater liability in the causal karma? The one who uses his intellect more becomes more liable in the blame.
Attain Perfection Through Abstinence From Retaliation
In this world, any person that harms you in any way is simply an 'instrument'. You are responsible because you suffer the damage. In reality, this world is truly independent and no one can interfere with another. And if this were not so, there would be no end to people's fear and no one would achieve liberation. Even Lord Mahavir would not have attained liberation. Lord Mahavir
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was completely impervious to any feelings projected towards him by others. People's feelings towards him ranged from reverence to contempt; from love to sexual desire; from respect to insult. Nothing affected him. There was no element of retaliation in him to anything. The one who is free from retaliation attains final liberation. The one who retaliates has to stay behind to suffer the consequences.
The world will go on binding you with all sorts of negative and positive feelings. If a pickpocket sees you putting money in your pocket at a train station, would he not make the intent to steal it? And suppose you were to suddenly board the train as it was pulling away, leaving the pickpocket behind, even though he missed the opportunity to steal your money, he still formulated the intent to steal and this will bind him for new karma effects.
Everyone in the world is going to have such positive or negative inner intent but if there is no retaliation from you then you will be left alone. If you do not put your own intent in others' intent, no one in the world can bind you; otherwise there would be no end to it.
From One to Infinite Through Ignorance
If you press your eyeball with your finger, you would see double. The eyes are not the real form of the Soul; they are the relative form. Nevertheless even when there is only one mistake, do you not see two? If there were fragments of a broken mirror lying on the ground, you would see so many eyes peering at you. From a slight mistake made by the eyes you would see countless eyes. In the same way, it is not that the Soul becomes compressed, but the pressure of circumstances distorts the single real view of the Soul into a multitude of forms. This entire living world is in the form of the divine. With just the mere thought of chopping down a