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were no pending karmic account with you. Even opinions you
express about facts, will offend someone. Satsang will sweep
and clean out everyone’s rubbish. If you see other people’s
trash, you will accumulate even more rubbish. By seeing your
own rubbish, it will be swept away. Those who are lazy or
apathetic will see more faults in others.
Mistakes
Mistakes made in the dark (ignorant state, non-Self-
realized state) and mistakes that remain hidden in the dark are
not visible. As the light of the awareness of the Self increases,
so does the visibility of mistakes. Destroying mistakes visible to
the world will create a change in the glow of your eyes. Your
intentions (bhaav) should be pure. As your mistakes depart,
your speech will be such that others would look forward to
listening to.
But how is it possible for you to see mistakes made of
darkness, in darkness (ignorance)? Your overt and obvious
mistakes will stop as you get into conflict with others. But there
are so many subtle (shookshma), subtler (shookshmatar) and
the subtlest (shookshmatam) mistakes that still remain and when
these depart, your fragrance (spiritual attraction) will spread.
Visible and obvious mistakes or shortcomings of a stern
and unyielding person, regardless of their quanity, are still better
than the invisible mistakes that remain hidden in the dark.
You will realize your mistakes when you encounter
disagreeable circumstances, for example when someone hurts
you or you encounter some misfortune.
You should never say, “I am free of faults.” Such a
statement should never be made. It is only when one becomes
the Absolute (Keval) that faults and mistakes cease to exist
within one.