Flawless Vision

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

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The Flawless Vision
The Flawless Vision
tree, you will bind karma. To have good intentions about others will bind merit karma and through negative intentions for others you will bind demerit karma.
When you come to satsang and see people standing around, you may ask yourself why they are standing around and thereby spoil your inner intent. You must immediately do pratikraman for this mistake.
There Are Only Two Things In The World
There are only two things the Pure Soul and circumstances. Why do circumstances arise? Everyone faces different circumstances. One person never encounters hostility in his entire life, while another suffers abuse all the time. Why do two people encounter entirely different circumstances? The reason for this is that the one living a peaceful life has never had the intent to hurt anyone, while the one being abused has had numerous intentions to hurt other living beings. How do these circumstances arise? It is possible to find the causes of these circumstances.
Say you come across a very poor old man in the street and you give him eleven dollars. Your friend is astounded that you are giving him so much money and tells you to give the old man only one dollar. Now you are the giver and the old man is the receiver, but since your friend interceded, he created an obstruction for the recipient. An obstructive karma has been created for your friend. This obstructive karma of your friend will prevent the inflow of money to him in the life to come.
All that you encounter in your life are the collective circumstances of everything you had done in your previous life. They are not new circumstances. You have no superior power above you nor do you have anything that works beneath you. The world is entirely independent. Your mistakes and your blunders
are your only superiors.
So if you are not at fault, no one in this world will bother you. Do people or policemen in the street bother you? Does anyone harass you? If not, then you had not committed any faults.
Inviting a Slap with Compensation Consider yourself very fortunate if someone insults you or speaks ill of you. A few years ago I used to announce that anyone in need of money could come and give me a slap and I in return would pay him five hundred rupees. Everyone refused and said they could not do it. Where can you find someone willing to slap or insult you even if you were willing to pay them for it? So people who are insulted frequently in their homes without having to pay for them, should consider themselves fortunate. As for myself, although I was willing to pay five hundred rupees, I was not as fortunate.
Before attaining spontaneous Self-realization, I used to insult and belittle myself because no one else would do it for me! Even though I was willing to pay to be insulted, no one would oblige me and that is why I had to do it myself. I used to tell myself, you have no sense whatsoever! You are stupid! You are an imbecile! I would ask myself: 'what kind of a person are you? Is the path to liberation so difficult to warrant such behaviour from you?' I would insult myself in this way. What else could I do when no one would oblige me? You on the other hand don't even have to search for insults or pay for them, because you receive them anyway. Hence, shouldn't you take advantage of this situation? Even the Bandit Can Not Hurt A Morally Upright Person
The power of morality is so great that no one in this world