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realize that it is not going to get any food and so it will leave.
A man used to visit me at my home. He was a manager
somewhere and had a good salary. He was married but he had
no children. One day he tells me, “Dada I am very tight fisted.
I cannot let go of money. If I am asked to serve food at
someone’s wedding, I serve very little. People comment loud
enough for me to hear, ‘This man is so stingy’. My wife too
complains about it. But what can I do? I cannot get rid of this
greedy nature. Please show me a way out. This greed makes me
look ugly even when I am asked to give at someone else’s cost.”
So ‘we’ told him, “When you come to satsang every day, do not
walk but take a rickshaw and on your way here, get ten rupees
worth of loose change and drop it along the way.” He did what
‘we’ told him and he succeeded. Doing this stops greed from
being fed and the mind becomes broad.
Your acceptance of your mistakes destroys them
Once you start to recognize your mistakes, those mistakes
will be destroyed. There are some cloth merchants who stretch
the fabric while measuring it and boast that they shortchanged
their customers by quarter of a yard. This is tremendous
raudradhyan and what is more they are protecting it. A mistake
should not be protected. When a vendor deceptively adulterates
his ghee (clarified butter) and makes 500 Rupees on the side,
he is planting a whole tree instead of a seed which will ruin his
endless lives to come.
Questioner : But Dada I can only see a few of my faults
and mistakes, I cannot see more.
Dadashri : By sitting here in the satsang, many veils of
ignorance are shed and the more they are shed, the more
mistakes you will see.
Awareness of seeing faults
Questioner : How can the awareness to see more faults