beliefs, which are intrinsically contradictory in nature. For the one
who constantly feels a burden in this worldly life, does not like its
bondage, who is desirous of liberation, it is important for him to
know the realities of this world; such as who runs this world? How
does it world run? What is bondage? What is liberation? What is
karma? Etc.
There is no superior above you in this world. You, yourself
are Parmatma (The Supreme), then who else can be higher than
this. The root cause of all miseries of this worldly life that you have
to endure is your own ‘blunders’ and ‘mistakes’. By not knowing
your Real Self, and by believing that you are Chandubhai, just
because others have said so, you have made the one fundamental
mistake upon which a series of mistakes continue to take place.
There is no independent ‘doer’ in this world. Everyone is a
naimitic (instrument) doer. When several nimits come together, a
single event takes place. People instead only blame the nimit that
they can see. They see the nimit through their ‘glasses of raag and
dwesh (attachment and abhorrence) and consequently they increase
their visual ‘prescription’ of raag and dwesh.
No one can harm or harass anyone else in this world. The
harassments you experience in your life is a result of your own
harassment from your past life. When, at the root of everything is
your own fault, does the entire world not become nirdosh (without
faults)? Who can bother you if you destroy your own mistakes?
These people that harass you are ‘visitors’ that you have
invited yourself. They come with as much force as you had initially
exerted.
Those people who are without any faults can even walk
through a town full of bandits and decoys and no one would harass
them. Such is the power of a pure person (sheel-morally upright).
If you hurt someone, you are the culprit. The Gnanis can
never hurt anyone; on the contrary they make everyone happy.
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