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the owner’s awareness. The mistakes that bite are immediately
noticeable. Those that do not bite, remain unnoticed.
Questioner : What are these electrical mistakes?
Dadashri : They are mistakes that are open and
straightforward. They go away after making you uneasy and
embarrassing you. They are beneficial to you because they keep
you alert and vigilant, whereas no one can see the mistakes of
darkness, those that remain hidden. The owner is unaware of
these mistakes, he is in spiritual apathy as far as these mistakes
are concerned, and no one else can show these mistakes to
him. He is the culprit behind them and yet he will not find
anyone to point those mistakes out to him, whereas he will
easily find someone to point out his mistakes with ‘electricity’.
The beliefs ‘I know’ and ‘everything is fine from now
onwards, there is no problem’, and ‘ there is no more mistake’,
are mistakes of the dark and are very grave and dangerous.
None except the Gnani can say, ‘I have no more mistake left’.
From now on maintain only this : ‘I am pure Soul’ and
in matters of the non-Self, the relative world, ‘I know nothing’.
Then you will never have any problems. You should never allow
the disease of ‘I know’ to gain entry within you. You, the pure
Self is flawless. But within you-your relative self, there are many
mistakes and as they come to light, you have to settle them with
equanimity.
If you have a firm and ardent desire to remain only in the
Gnani’s Agna, then through his grace you will be able to do so.
The ecstasy of the Agnas is with those who follow them. The
ecstasy of the Gnan is with those who impart this knowledge to
others. The bliss of the Self is distinct from these two.
If a person understands what I am saying but does not
allow it to ‘sink’ within him, then realize that he has a tuber of