Flawless Vision

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

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these faults cry out for? They are crying for recognition. People consider their mistakes as their virtues. It is the nature of a mistake to overpower and rule you, but once you recognize a mistake as a mistake, it will leave. People however remain unaware of their mistakes and continue to defend them. This only reinforces the mistakes and strengthens them.
People Support Their Mistakes By Siding With Them
Questioner: Dada, how can you side with your mistakes?
Dadashri: You would be siding with your mistake if after you scold someone, you try to justify your action by saying that the person needed the scolding and that otherwise he would not have understood. This would be siding with your mistakes. The mistake knows that you are supporting it and so it will never leave; on the contrary it will become even stronger, because by siding with it, you are nurturing it. By supporting your mistake even once, you are extending its longevity by twenty years. You should never side with any mistakes.
The Key to Destroying Your Mistakes
Major importance is given to the awareness of aggression caused to others through the medium of thoughts, speech and acts and to ask for forgiveness in the direct presence of the awakened Lord within. You should maintain awareness in every step of daily living. The inner component of anger, pride, attachment and greed within you will continue to create new karmic accounts without fail. And it is against these very components that you have to do pratikraman immediately and erase everything. You cannot afford to let this business of binding karma continue.
Questioner: But the mistakes we make now, are they not from our past life?
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Dadashri: These mistakes are the results of the very demerit karma that you committed in your past life. Not only do people not destroy their mistakes in this life, but they also go on increasing them. In order to destroy a mistake, you must accept it and regard it as a mistake. You cannot go on protecting it. This is the key the Gnani gives you to solve all your problems. It can open up the most difficult of locks.
How can a Gnani Purush help you? All he does is to simply shed light on your mistakes; and show you ways not to support and protect your mistakes. But if you ever say something like, 'Oh but I have to live in this world, how can I possibly do that?' you are supporting your mistake. You should never support your mistake in this way. When you do this, not only are you supporting your mistake, but also creating bondage for infinite rebirths.
Once you begin to recognize your mistakes; they will be destroyed. When cloth merchants swindle their customers by stretching the cloth before cutting it in order to sell them short, and brag about their ruse, they are essentially committing grave negative karma. This actually supports their mistakes. There is no need to support your mistake like that. By cheating others, one is doomed to face infinite rebirths.
Stop Nurturing Inner Enemies
If a person wants to be free from mistakes, I would tell him that he should stop feeding his inner enemies of anger, pride, attachment and greed for a period of three years. When these are starved of nourishment, they will become ineffective and lifeless. When you no longer give sustenance to mistakes, they will abandon you. Any support for anger, pride attachment and greed is defined as a mistake. If for just three years, that support is not given to these inner enemies, they will disappear.