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children around you are, no matter what pranks they play, if it does not bother you, then you are not a fault. If it affects you, then you must understand that it is your fault. Analyze It This Way Who is at fault? Find out who is suffering. If a servant breaks ten teacups in the home, it will affect someone in the home. The children in the house would not care, so they do not suffer. The parents get annoyed, but even then the mother manages to fall asleep. The father calculates his loss, “Ten times five means I have lost fifty rupees.” He is alert. That is why he suffers the most. From this you understand who is at fault. If you continue to analyze situations in this way, you will progress spiritually and attain liberation. Questioner: Some people just do not understand, no matter how nicely you interact with them. Dadashri: If they do not understand, then the fault is yours. It is absolutely wrong to see faults in others. It is because of your own fault that you encounter an instrument (nimit) who inflicts suffering on you. If an evidentiary instrument (nimit) is a person, you blame him, but if an evidentiary instrument (nimit) is a thorn that pricks you, what would you do? Hundreds of people walk on this footpath but none of them get hurt, but when ‘Chandulal’ is walking along, the thorn sticks in his foot. Vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidence) is very precise. It only delivers suffering to those with past accounts. It brings together all the circumstances including an evidentiary instrument (nimit) and the victim. But what is the fault of an evidentiary instrument (nimit)? If someone were to ask me how he could recognize his mistakes, I would tell him to make a note of all the 61