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caught in the door when the child closes it. You suffer because of your mistake. What should you say to the child? Tell the child,“ See! Because you were playing with the door my finger got caught in it. Don’ t do that again.” You should make him understand this way. Instead people would beat the child. The fools! Why are you causing another entanglement?
Some husbands get angry with their wives if her cooking not taste good. The fools! They get tasteless food because of their own mistakes.
People say that there is suffering as long as there is a body. No, the suffering is there as long as there are mistakes( bhool).‘ We’ do not have to suffer anything precisely because‘ we’ do not have any mistakes.
When your wife puts eye drops in your eyes and the eyes hurt, the fault is yours. The fault is of the sufferer, that is what the vitarags say and yet people blame the nimit.
The law that‘ Fault is of the sufferer’ will lead to moksha. If someone asks‘ us’,“ How can I find my fault?”‘ We’ would teach him,“ Wherever you have to suffer, that is where your faults lie. You have to investigate what kind of a fault it was that you had to suffer so.” When one suffers all day long, then he needs to find out which mistakes were committed.
How do‘ we’ understand that the other person is at fault?‘ We’ see the‘ home department’( the Self) and the‘ foreign department’( the non-self) of the other person as distinct and separate.‘ We’ do not say anything if mistakes occur in the foreign department, but‘ we’ have to alert him if anything happens in the home department. There should be no hindrance on the way to moksha.
By accepting,“ The fault is of the sufferer”, you eliminate the puzzle from one side and by saying‘ vyavasthit’ you eliminate it from the other side.