Flawless Vision

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

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What childishness. Complete ignorance and childishness. When it suits you, you make excuses by saying that your actions are dictated by your karma, so why then are you so attentive when walking close to a well, or why do you quickly cross the railway tracks when a train is approaching? And if need be, you even start running to protect yourself. Why do you not let your karmas dictate here?
How can a person see his own faults when he is smothered by moha (ignorance of his Real Self, deluded world view)? Moha is the dictator here. 'I am so and so, 'I am like this and like that'delusion about being such and such. Of course people are deluded about their true nature, are they not?
Questioner: Yes there is a lot of delusion.
Dadashri: That is all there is. There is no thing else. It is not worth denouncing people, but this is how it is everywhere.
And That Is When He Starts On
The Path Of Lord Mahavir
only a few of his own faults, then such a person has a long way to go. How can you tell me that you can only see a handful of your faults when you are saturated with them? Do you think that the faults that you see are the only faults that you have?
When can you claim to have attained the path of Lord Mahavir? When you see hundreds of your faults each day and you do as many pratikramans, you can say that you are on the path of Lord Mahavir. Thereafter, Self-Realization is so much further along the path. But after reading a handful of scriptures, people go around intoxicated with the belief that they have acquired Self-Realization. They have not experienced even a drop of SelfRealization! When real knowledge stops growing, egoism increases. Ego impedes enlightened worldview. The two of the most treacherous pitfalls on the path to liberation are egoism and self guided spiritual endeavors.
You Have Never Seen Your Own Faults Dadashri: Can you see your own faults? Questioner: That is what a person needs to do. Dadashri: Yes, so why can't you see them?
Questioner: We are trapped in this worldly life and so engrossed in our day to day living that we do not see our faults.
Dadashri: No, there is something wrong with your ability to see your faults. But you have set yourself to be the judge, the defendant as well as the defending lawyer. So whenever you are at fault, you become your own defending lawyer.
Questioner: So we are wrongly defending ourselves.
Dadashri: Yes, all along that is exactly what you have been doing. Nothing else. You have wrongfully continued to
When you begin to see your own faults, you have finally understood the essence of Krupadudev's dharma. Today you see your faults, but tomorrow you will not see the same faults but new ones and the day after, you will see newer ones. That is when you can be assured that you understand and are following Krupadudev's dharma. You have not understood anything until then.
In the Kramic path (the traditional religious path), one never sees one's faults. People on this path will even admit that they are aware that they have a lot of faults, yet they are unable to see them. If they confess this, then I would concede that they are indeed worthy of liberation, but if a person tells me that he sees