Flawless Vision

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

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vow) that you wanted liberation, but that vow was not strong enough. That is why you find yourself in your current predicament. In the end you had to come to Dada, did you not?
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Only Then Can You Consider Your Mistake Destroyed
If you had destroyed even one mistake in each of your past lives, you would have already become liberated. Instead of destroying mistakes you have increased them fivefold. Your external appearance is pleasant, but within you there is endless strife. When do you know that you have destroyed your faults? You have no other authority (upri) over you, but you do need someone to point out your mistakes. You can destroy your mistakes, but how will you be able to find them by yourself? It is not as if you have only a few of them; you have countless mistakes. The mistakes of the physical body appear very serious - Some people use such brash language that even if they were to invite you to dinner for a sumptuous thirty-two course meal, you would be turned off. You would think to yourself that it would have been better if they had not invited you in the first place. People speak harshly and their minds are full of venom.
Who Erases Your Faults?
Who will destroy your mistakes for you? Only the Gnani Purush, the one who has destroyed all his mistakes can do the same for you. He is the one who despite the presence of the physical body, lives with the sense that he is not the body. He is Vitaraag, absolutely detached. This sense of total detachment from all ownership of the body is the seed of Knowledge. After destroying all seeds of ignorance, the seed of Knowledge begins to thrive. If you have even the slightest attachment for your body, it would not be regarded as the seed of knowledge. As long as
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there is ignorance, this attachment will not leave.
In this world, you can find everything except your own mistakes. That is way the Gnani Purush is needed to show you your mistakes. Only he is capable of showing you your mistakes and only then you will be able to destroy them. This can only be achieved after you meet the Gnani Purush and he helps you become impartial. You can attain your spiritual goal after you become impartial towards your worldly self. You cannot however, acquire this state of impartiality until the Gnani bestows upon you the Knowledge of your Real Self. 'Gnan' does not see fault in anyone. It is the intellect that will look at faults in everyone, even one's beloved brother.
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Mistakes Of The Darkness
It is because of the Gnani Purush that you are able to see your mistakes. Otherwise how are you to know about your mistakes? Your ship would be sailing in the wrong direction because your compass is broken. You think that you are sailing north but in fact you are sailing south. Now what can you do when your compass is broken, and you do not know how to navigate by the North Star?
Swachhand (to proceed in spiritual matters without accepting guidance from an enlightened one) is a person's gravest of all faults. It gives rise to an entire army of negativity in spiritual progress. Moreover if a person defends such a disease by arguing that there is nothing wrong with having such an attitude, then that person is doomed, he will ruin his innumerable lives to come.
"I know it" and "I am safe now", are two of the greatest dangers in spiritual progress and are the cardinal mistakes of darkness. This darkness shields the presence of mistakes to the extent that the owner does not realize it as a mistake. These two