Flawless Vision

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

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The Flawless Vision
Questioner: Dada, I read somewhere in one of your Aptavanis that if someone were to write such a thing, you would be greatly indebted to that person.
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Dadashri: Yes indeed that is written in the Aptavani. Questioner: How is that?
Dadashri: Unless you feel grateful to him, your entire ego will rise up and result in abhorrence. What does the other person stand to lose? He has nothing to lose but you do. You have to be grateful to him, because you do not want to incur a loss. The other person does not care. He can only say such things because he is irresponsible. You would be just as irresponsible if you imitated him. If he barks at you and you bark back, you are not better than a barking dog. So consider yourself indebted to him. Do you understand?
Questioner: Are we to be grateful to him because we see and understand the resulting effect of our past life mistakes?
Dadashri: Yes. You should be grateful from within whenever your faults manifest; only then will these faults cease to exist. If you feel hatred towards a policeman you should be grateful to him and the fault will cease. Consider the person that you find disagreeable your benefactor and you will no longer find him disagreeable. Each and every word I utter is like a medicine. All these are remedies; how else is anyone to understand the statement that you must be indebted to the person that calls you a thief! Take this as a command from Dada as it is of utmost benefit for you.
Questioner: If Dada himself is grateful to the other person, then what is wrong with us doing the same?
Dadashri: Yes, this is how you should look at it: Tell yourself
The Flawless Vision
that he is just calling you a thief and not devious or evil. It is good of him not to say anything else; after all it is his mouth and he can say whatever he wants. Do you have the right to stop him? You just have to feel grateful to him. By doing this you will not spoil your mind, and you will keep your peace. Do you understand?
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This is a principle! How is it so? If someone called me a thief, I would be grateful to him. Why so Dada? No one would say such a thing in the first place. All this is nothing but a result of your own projection, a result of whatever you yourself had uttered in your previous life. I give you absolute written assurance that this entire world is in the form of results of projections. That is why I am grateful and you should also feel the same. If you felt the same way, your mind will not be disturbed. If you are hurt when people call me a thief, consider the fact that I have been called many different things. Even Lord Mahavir encountered abuse from people and his followers had to stand back and accept it. All the devotees accepted whatever was said about the Lord, because he himself had taught them to do so.
You Are The Wrongdoer
Questioner: So do we now have to train ourselves to see the world without faults?
Dadashri: If you yourself had not uttered anything in the first place, there would be no problem. But instead you go around blaming others and questioning why they say such things to you. You are the culprit behind these recurrent situations and now you accuse the other person for insulting you. Someone else might teach you to ignore the other person who insults you, and instead just respond by telling him that he is a king and your statement will come back to you in the form of an echo that says you are a king. Everything is your own projection.