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Aptavani-6
one who is without mistakes as an improver.
Now there are some people who wonder why the mistake
keeps occurring even though they have repented for it very
heavily. Actually, if the repenting is done heartily, the mistake
will definitely go away.
Clearing the Mistake
To see the mistakes of the self is the Self, the Soul (Atma).
To become impartial for the self is being the Self. No karma will
touch You if You are the Self – if You are being the Self, remaining
as the Self, ‘seeing’ the self (You are in shuddha upayog).
Many people tell me, ‘Your Gnan is true, but when you travel
in cars, is it not considered violence to a living being (jiva
himsa) because a lot of insects die when they hit the car?’ I told
them, “We’ are shuddha upayogi.’ The scriptures say that,
‘The one who is the Self, remains as the Self, and is in equanimity,
Holds the knowledge and the state of meditation as the Self,
Wins the minds of others;
Removing the mistakes thus, the embodied being becomes
liberated.’
‘Shuddha upayog ne samatadhari, gnandhyan manohari re;
Kalank ko door nivari, jiva vare shivnari’
From the moment one begins to see the mistakes of the
self, one attains the key to liberation. ‘You’ can see whatever
mistake there is in ‘Chandubhai,’ the self. What good is this
Gnan if one cannot see the mistakes of the self? That is why
Krupadudev Shrimad Rajchandra (a Gnani Purush who became
enlightened via the Kramic path) had said:
‘I am a receptacle of infinite faults, oh compassionate One,
What solution is there if I cannot see my own faults?’
‘Hoon toh dosh anant nu, bhajan chhoo karunaad,
Dithaan nahi nij dosh to tariye kaun upaya?’