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The Flawless Vision
The Flawless Vision
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pride, attachment and greed. No one wishes to possess any of these. These are your archenemies. Despite knowing this, people continue to nurture their faults and make them stronger. In not being able to see your own faults, you continue to sustain them. You see only a handful of your glaring, big mistakes.
The Gnani Confesses His Own Faults
Questioner: Those who have slipped into theoretical knowledge, which by its very nature does not produce any spiritual results claim that the soul is impervious and it is the physical body that is affected.
Dadashri: There are many such people. They create more confusion for themselves; that only perpetuates their confusion and entanglements.
After listening to everything they have to say, I tell them that the Lord has said that one must have the following qualities: Nonviolence in speech and forgiveness. They have none of these qualities and yet so much arrogance!
When a mistake arises, I know what perpetuates it. At times, a person would approach me and in the presence of other people, ask me how I had the audacity to call myself a Gnani when I could not even get rid of my habit of smoking a water pipe. I would admit to him that it was an obvious weakness on my part, which I had been aware of for a long time. If I were to tell him that the Gnanis are impervious to everything worldly, the smoking pipe would have immediately realized that it had been granted an additional longevity of twenty years, because its master is kind and would protect it in any way that he could. I am very shrewd and have never protected any of my mistakes. Do people not generally defend themselves?
Questioner: Yes, they do so vehemently.
Dadashri: One man was using snuff. I asked him whether he really needed to do so. He said that there was nothing wrong in using snuff. I told him that he had no idea that he was increasing his addiction for snuff by another twenty years. How does that happen? Any event that takes place occurs only after its end has been decided. People lengthen the event even after its end has been determined. What can one do when the living augment and reduce things in this way? By protecting their mistakes, people lengthen the duration of their mistakes. To defend something which is wrong or to say 'Don't worry, nothing will effect me.' is a terrible mistake.
Egoism and the Soul are poles apart.
Such laxity prevails because people have not known the real answers and so everyone continues to be negligent in matters of spiritual progress. But when someone like me comes along and puts them on the spot by asking them questions, it shakes them up.
Accept Faults Without Retaliation
I have no inflexibility in me. I accept my mistakes readily when they are pointed out to me. I am even thankful to the person who points out my mistakes to me, because if he sees them then it means that the mistakes are there. I would not question whether he is right or wrong
If someone wrote, “Dada is a thief', on the back of my coat, would people not read it aloud? Now why would people call me a thief? Because it had been written on the back of my coat. I would only find out about it when I take my coat off and see the words. Someone wrote the words. Others simply happen to read them aloud. I must not react to such events.
