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of in newspapers. These are mistakes one has never heard or
thought of before. These are very private mistakes being
confessed.
Questioner: But having come to the feet of the Gnani,
why would he commit suicide?
Dadashri: It is fine as long as the Gnani knows of his
mistakes, but if others were to know of them, it will cause
problems in his worldly life interactions (vyavahar). So we do
not do that. We do not divulge any of them to anyone else. How
candidly and openly they disclose them, with an open heart!
Why do I give their letters back to them? I tell them to keep it
private and read it and repent for it over and over again for a
month, shed some tears over it and then burn it.
Read it and keep repenting for a month. I have removed
the root of all that. All you have to do is to cleanse the rest that
is evident externally.
Unity Lies Where There is Purity in Heart
When you attain the unity/oneness (ekata), it is considered
purity of the heart. I attain unity with everyone because there is
purity of heart, is it not? I feel oneness (abhedta) with everyone.
And when a person writes an ‘affidavit’ (a confession letter), he
does not leave out a single mistake. All the mistakes, from the
age of fifteen to age forty, they do not leave out a single mistake
when disclosing them to Me. All these boys and girls disclose all
their mistakes to Me. Why is that?
Questioner: That is the purity.
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Dadashri: That is purity. When he discloses everything,
I look at it, do a vidhi and give his letter back to him.
What did the Tirthankars say? Alochana, pratikraman
and pratyakhyan. When one does alochana with ‘us,’ then
that is all. Thereafter, there is no other superior above to accept