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The Flawless Vision
The Flawless Vision
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defend yourself.
This entire world has been sleeping with its eyes wide open. So how can people realize their own faults? You do not see your own faults. How can a person see his own faults?
Questioner: I can see some of the obvious ones but not the subtle ones.
Dadashri: Why can't you see faults? Don't you have a soul within you? Of course you do! And that soul is in fact the real judge. The ego is the plaintiff. When you have just the ego and the judge, then you will be able to see all your faults. You will see many of them. It is the lawyer within you (your intellect), who defends your faults by telling you that everyone is doing the same thing. Alas! The entire fault is overlooked! You know that people solicit lawyers don't you? Can you become free from your faults when you are the judge, the lawyer and the plaintiff?
Questioner: No, we cannot.
Dadashri: Your 'lawyer will go to any length to conclude in your favor, would he not?
Questioner: Yes he would.
Dadashri: This madness continues throughout the day and that is exactly why you suffer. So tell me how many of your faults will be uncovered? How many of your faults will you attest to?
Questioner: So what kind of a testimonial will it be?
Dadashri: You have as many faults as you have hair on your head but how will these faults come to surface if you are the judge, the lawyer and the plaintiff? You cannot have impartiality and fairness. If you are impartial then liberation is at hand. There is too much lawyer work (intellect) going on within.
And if you have to, you will find faults in others, you become the judge and pass judgment here, but when it comes to looking at your own faults, you do not judge them at all; instead you become all three: the judge, the plaintiff and also the lawyer. So what kind of a judgment will you render for yourself? Obviously you will make the judgment, which is in your favor.
Questioner: Convenience. We manipulate things for our own convenience
Dadashri: That is precisely why you do not become free from these worldly ties. On the one hand you want to become faultless, while on the other you want to do only what is convenient to you. You cannot have both ways. Only in the absence of the lawyer intellect) will you realize your faults. But today's people cannot do without lawyers.
You will immediately begin to recognize your mistakes and faults after acquiring this Gnan and that is because the lawyer no longer remains in the middle. The 'culprit' is there, but the lawyer is not there.
You can become The Lord by looking at your own mistakes. It is because of these mistakes that you remain a mortal, but when all these mistakes are gone, you will be immortal.
You have not looked at your own faults and that is why they remain. And it is these faults that rule over you unobstructed. You say that you want to be rid of your faults and yet these faults construct scaffolding within you, ready to build a home. They have constructed a strong foundation. The faults know that they are not going to be hassled and that they are only being paid a lip service and nothing more. What can the owner do to us they say.
Anyone who can annihilate a single fault of his is able to
