Flawless Vision

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

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The Flawless Vision
The Flawless Vision
to do now is to be aware of that understanding and knowledge which is without mistakes.
Knowledge should be perfect. It should be free of faults and mistakes. And so too should your understanding. It would not benefit you to have the knowledge without the understanding. That would be like having a papaya tree that would not yield any papaya. Have you seen such papaya trees?
Questioner: Yes Dada.
Dadashri: You have? You care for the sapling and nurture it until it becomes a tree, and even after you do all that for it, it still bears no fruit.
So both knowledge and understanding should be perfect. Knowledge alone is of no use, but right understanding would still be helpful. Understanding reaches the heart whereas knowledge reaches the intellect.
The current knowledge, the knowledge that people have in their everyday lives, reaches the intellect. Understanding, reaches the heart. Anything done heartily will take one all the way to final liberation. People refer to this as intuition. Whatever understanding one has, gives rise to intuition, and whatever intuition one possesses, will lead to increased understanding. Of all the things that will help you achieve liberation, this is very valuable.
With mistakes, not even your day-to-day life will run smoothly, so how can you expect to attain liberation? Your knowledge and your understanding should become pure, without mistakes. You will understand what is knowledge and what is not knowledge, i.e. ignorance. All mistakes are due to ignorance. From that moment your knowledge will grow.
Even at the age of eighty, a man is not ashamed to call
himself a husband. Even his wife will proudly proclaim that he is her husband. They are not embarrassed to say this because that is what they believe and people will say what they believe. What else can they do? But that knowledge is not entirely wrong. Whatever knowledge they have is knowledge according to the world, it is relative knowledge. It is not Real knowledge.
According to the Real Knowledge, you are a Pure Soul and so is she. But you need to acquire this knowledge first. At the moment you believe that you are Chandulal, that you are a Jain and that you are seventy-four years old. You have so many such beliefs. You can even recall where you used to play as a child. You also know where you made your money and where you spent it. You have the knowledge of all this except the knowledge of who you really are.
Questioner: We wish to have this knowledge and that is why we have come to you. Please give us this knowledge.
Dadashri: You have had this desire in many previous lives, but you were not absolutely committed to it. If you had, you would have used up all your merit karma effects in acquiring it. That would be the result of an absolute commitment for liberation.
Instead you have used up your merit karma to acquire material wealth, and physical comforts. You have spent all your merit karma on everything else but your liberation. If you had made the absolute commitment for liberation, you would have spent your merit karma for only that. Look at me. I made the absolute commitment for liberation and therefore, I do not encounter any obstacles. Other people have obstacles but not me. Knowledge And Understanding Without Any Mistakes
Questioner: When one's knowledge and understanding