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recognize mistakes, ‘we’ have given you the sutra: ‘fault is of
the sufferer.’ If there is any suffering on your part, the mistake
is yours for sure. If someone robs you and you curse the person
who robbed you, your mistake gets an extension. That mistake
will realize that you are feeding it and so it will not leave. If
someone burns your home down, you curse that person. But
who is the one suffering? The fault is of the one suffering, the
person who torched your home is sitting peacefully in his own
home.
If someone writes ‘Dada is a thief’ on my back, then the
fault is mine, because who has time to waste writing such things?
And why did they write this only on my back? So, ‘we’ would
immediately accept it and settle the matter. It is because you
have not settled your mistakes in the past life that the same
mistakes keep coming over and over. You do not know how to
settle your mistakes and so you make five more in the process
of getting rid of one mistake.
The worldly life does not hinder you. Eating and drinking
does not hinder you. Neither has penance nor has renunciation
bound you. Your own mistakes have bound you. There are
infinite mistakes within. If you destroy only twenty-five major
ones, the twenty sixth one will leave on its own.
Some people recognize their mistakes but their ego does
not allow them to accept it. What is this like? Just one mistake
ruins countless lives. How can one afford to do that?
Gnani Purush does not have visible and grossly apparent
(sthool) mistakes, and neither does he have subtle (sookshma)
ones. ‘The Gnani’ has subtler (sookshmatar) and subtlest
(sookshmatam) mistakes of which ‘we’ remain as gnata and
drashta (knower and seer). ‘We’ will give you definitions of
these mistakes. What is a gross mistake? It is a mistake, which
any one with awareness would recognize. Subtle mistakes are
those that only five people from the twenty-five thousand sitting