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intoxication (keyf) increases. As one’s intoxication of ‘I know
something’ increases, elimination of the veils of ignorance
covering vision (darshan-avaran) comes to a halt and so does
the elimination of knowledge covering veils (gnan-avaran).
Nothing except your obstinacy hinders your progress towards
moksha. The greatest areas of danger (bhaisthan) you should
fear is swachhand (to act according to your own wishes) and the
intoxication of ‘I know something’.
If the sadhu maharajs (spiritual preceptors) stop just the
one mistake of reveling in pride of doer ship as their karma
unfolds (garva of udaya karma), then their work is done. You do
not have to look at their external conduct, it is acceptable even
if they have kashays (anger, pride, attachment and greed) but
they must not relish this sense of doer-ship (garva ras). That is
all one has to look for in a maharaj (Jain spiritual master).
Anyone who destroys even one mistake of his own is
worthy of being called God. You will find many who will show
you your mistakes but they are not able to destroy them for you.
What is more, they must know how to show you your mistakes,
if one does not know how, then he should admit that he is the
one with mistakes. It is a task of tremendous responsibility to
show someone his mistakes. The one who destroys mistakes in
others is God. Only a Gnani Purush can do that. ‘We’ do not
see anyone accountable or guilty in this world. Whether it is a
pickpocket or someone with degraded conduct; ‘we’ see them
both as faultless. That is why a Gnani can destroy your mistakes.
No one else is capable of doing so. God has never considered
worldly faults as a fault. ‘Ignorance of the Self’ is the greatest
fault. As long as the fault of ‘I am Chandulal’ exists, all other
faults exist. Once you attain the knowledge of the Self, then all
other faults will leave.
Impartial vision
One cannot see one’s own faults without the knowledge