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The Fault is of the Sufferer
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Everyone Finds Faults in Their Children!
During your studies, did you suffer any difficulties?
Questioner: I did suffer difficulties.
Dadashri: That was surely due to your own fault. It
was not the teacher’s or anyone else’s fault.
Questioner: These children talk back to the teacher.
When will they improve?
Dadashri: The one who suffers the consequences of
the fault, is at fault. The teachers these days are such that
students talk back to them. These children are actually wise,
but it is the teachers and parents who have turned out to
be lunatics! If the elderly hold on to their old ways, then
the children are bound to rebel, aren’t they? These days
the conduct of parents is not such that children would not
rebel. Even the conduct of the elderly has deteriorated.
That is why children rebel.
Dada’s Understanding to Counter Faults!
The rule ‘The fault is of the sufferer’ will lead one
to final liberation. If someone were to ask me, “In what
way can I find my own faults?” Then I would teach him,
“Where is it that you experience suffering? That is your
fault. Find out, what fault must you have done to endure
such suffering.” In fact, one endures suffering the entire
day, so one should find out what faults have been made!
The moment suffering arises, you should know, ‘This
is my fault.’ If ever I were to make a mistake, then tension
would arise, wouldn’t it?
How do I understand the fault of another person? I
can See his ‘home’ [the Self] and ‘foreign’ [the non-Self]