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dharmadhyan as defined by the Lord. When someone causes you pain and suffering, or steals from you, if you accept the fact that it is all due to the fruition of your own past karma, then liberation is yours. Liberation is yours if you do not see others at fault. But instead people do exactly what they are not supposed to, they accuse others by saying:‘ He did this to me; he stole from me, etc.’
To bite the nimit
When a mother-in-law makes her miserable, the daughterin-law does not look at her own faults but keeps blaming the mother-in-law and finding faults with her. But if she had an understanding of dharmadhyan, she would tell herself,“ I am the one at fault. It is because of my own karmas from my past life that I have a mother-in-law like this. How come my friend’ s mother-in-law is so nice?” When other mothers-in-laws are so nice, can she not understand that the fault lies with her? Why else would she encounter a mother-in-law such as this one?
Questioner: Such problems occur because one has the wrong vision( drashti).
Dadashri: No, it is not wrong vision but the fact is that she has no awareness( bhan) at all. She does not know that these are consequences of her own past karmas. She is only seeing what is directly in front of her. She is accusing the nimit; she should not accuse the mother-in-law because the mother-inlaw is just a nimit( the instrument, the vehicle through which her karma is giving the effect). On the contrary, she should thank the mother-in-law for releasing her from her karmas. How can you become free from your karmas? It is when you do not see the mother-in-law, the pickpocket, or someone who imposes suffering upon you as being at fault at all; it is when you do not fault them for their actions but accept and maintain the awareness that you are being released from your own karma through them. Otherwise that karma is not over, it has not been