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The Flawless Vision
Mistakes Have Layers
Mistakes become the object to be perceived. The more of
these mistakes you see, the freer you will be from them. A mistake
is like an onion; it has layers just like an onion. As you go about
seeing your own faults, the layers in turn fall away. When all the
layers fall away, the mistake is gone from its very root. Many
mistakes only have a single layer, and because they do not have a
second layer, seeing them just once can destroy them. The ones
that have many layers need to be seen again and again, and
pratikraman must be done for them repeatedly, before they are
destroyed. Some faults have so many layers that they require
continuous pratikramans. It may appear to others that you continue
to make the same mistake and they may remind you about it. All
you have to do is to agree with them. People are unaware that
mistakes occur in layers and that these layers can be innumerable.
Questioner: On the one hand you say that this Gnan
works by itself and yet you tell us that if we make a mistake, it is
the discharge of our past karma. Is this not an adjustment of
some kind?
Dadashri: They are all discharge. Everything is discharging.
There is nothing that you have to acquire or renounce. There is
contempt and abhorrence in renunciation and there is attachment
in acquisition. All of it is nothing but discharge provided there is
no attachment or abhorrence.
Why can you see your own faults? What proof is there?
There is proof in this, because when Chandubhai becomes angry
or upset, you do not like it: This is proof that You have actually
seen Chandubhai’s fault. This happens frequently in the course of
a day each time you are aware of the mistakes.