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courage? Only when there is abhedta. Even the women confessed, *This is what occurred in this place and this is what occurred at some other place. They confessed everything and they even disclosed their names at the bottom. No matter what the mistake, there is nothing wrong in it. I am ready to destroy hundreds and thousands of your mistakes within an hour, but You have to be ready for that. How can any mistake touch the nirdosh (the flawless, the Self)?
There must be some ten thousand people who have disclosed their weaknesses to me. It is for removing those weaknesses that you have come to me. I can never divulge those weaknesses to others... not even to your brother or your wife. You can disclose to Me all your weaknesses that you are not able to tell anyone, you should not disclose them to anyone else. You can confess all your weaknesses from the smallest to the largest. That is called alochana; it washes them all off. But we know that this is how the world is. What can it be like in the era of Kaliyug?
Questioner: That is how it is.
of in newspapers. These are mistakes one has never heard or thought of before. These are very private mistakes being confessed.
Questioner: But having come to the feet of the Gnani, why would he commit suicide?
Dadashri: It is fine as long as the Gnani knows of his mistakes, but if others were to know of them, it will cause problems in his worldly life interactions (vyavahar). So we do not do that. We do not divulge any of them to anyone else. How candidly and openly they disclose them, with an open heart! Why do I give their letters back to them? I tell them to keep it private and read it and repent for it over and over again for a month, shed some tears over it and then burn it.
Read it and keep repenting for a month. I have removed the root of all that. All you have to do is to cleanse the rest that is evident externally.
Dadashri: We know that this is how it is and compassion flows from us, 'Oh no! What state is this?' We wash it off for them and do 'we' ever say that we had no mistakes at all? 'We' too were born in the Kaliyug, were we not? There have to be some kind of mistakes, right? Some have more and some have less.
Alochana in Complete Privacy If someone else were to read that letter, and if the writer came to know about it, he would commit suicide; hence 'we' do a special ceremony (vidhi) for that letter. "We destroy his mistake and return that letter to him, because if 'we' tell others of your mistake; you would commit suicide. These are mistakes that cannot be disclosed to others. They are not the kind you read
Unity Lies Where There is Purity in Heart
When you attain the unity/oneness (ekata), it is considered purity of the heart. I attain unity with everyone because there is purity of heart, is it not? I feel oneness (abhedta) with everyone. And when a person writes an 'affidavit' (a confession letter), he does not leave out a single mistake. All the mistakes, from the age of fifteen to age forty, they do not leave out a single mistake when disclosing them to Me. All these boys and girls disclose all their mistakes to Me. Why is that? Questioner: That is the purity.
(420) Dadashri: That is purity. When he discloses everything, I look at it, do a vidhi and give his letter back to him.
What did the Tirthankars say? Alochana, pratikraman and pratyakhyan. When one does alochana with 'us,' then that is all. Thereafter, there is no other superior above to accept
