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who is almighty. Have you ever confessed your mistakes in this way? Who could you confess to? Without doing alochana, there is no liberation. Without alochana, who will forgive you? The Gnani Purush can do anything, because he is not the doer. If he were the doer, then he too would bind karma. But because he is not a doer, he can do whatever he chooses.
'Dada Bhagwan' The Final Guru
You should do alochana to your guru. Your final guru is your 'Dada Bhagwan (The Self that has awakened within you after Gnan Vidhi); I merely show you the way. Now that I have shown you your final guru, He will continue to answer your questions and that is why He is 'Dada Bhagwan (the Lord within). However, until He takes over being your living, internal Lord, you may consider this Dada' (the Gnani Purush) and the Lord as Your pure Self. When He becomes established within You, the answers will come from within. Ultimately, He will be fully enlightened. If You Hide a Mistake from 'Us, it is very
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Whereas here, many men and women give me the entire mirror image of their lives from age sixteen until the present. There has never been such a large "affidavit.' It is called alochana. They show the whole mirror to me and so I look at it. I give them My blessing and so all their misdeeds are removed. The essence and grip hold of those mistakes within go away. Just as you burn a rope full of knots, the knots will remain intact, but will they cause any harm? No. Similarly, I burn the rope. Then you will still have the knots, but you will have to shake them with pratikraman so that everything will fall off.
Extreme Faults in Sexuality People bring their letter of alochana to us.' They write down their every mistake on paper. Not just one person but thousands have done that. What do I do about all those mistakes? I read their letters: I do a vidhi on it and give the letters back to their owners. If 'we' were to ever tell others that such and such a person committed such and such a mistake; if ever a little bit of the information were to leak out and made public, then... one does not disclose his mistakes openly and that is why the poor man keeps protecting them and keeps them hidden.
If you hide things from the Gnani Purush, it will hinder you severely. People do pratikraman in order to bring things out into the open. That man brought so much baggage with him and he came here to confess everything. What occurs when you try to hide things? Your mistakes will remain hidden and they will double.
It is Just Like an Affidavit
Do people protect their mistakes or not? Why do they not make them public? It is because they will lose their reputation. Does he give it to me in writing so that he can ruin his reputation? He tells me, 'Sir, these are the mistakes I have committed. Please wash them off for me. Please forgive me.' How much trust he must have in me! People write of mistakes which have never occurred in the world before! You would be flabbergasted just reading them.
Thousands of people have written down such mistakes for me. Women have completely disclosed all their mistakes to me. If one has had seven lovers, she will give the names of all seven in her confession. Now tell me, what should we do? She would commit suicide even if a word of it was to get out, and
Men and women come to me to give their 'affidavit,' just as they do to the priest in the Catholic Church. There they go inside the confession stand and it is dark in there. They don't show their faces because the offender cannot bear to show his face. People do not have enough courage to confess their mistakes face-to-face with the other person.
