The Gnanis have destroyed all their mistakes. The one who can
destroy even a single mistake of his own can become Parmatma
(Supreme Soul).
On what basis do these mistakes survive? It is because you
support them by protecting them. You can increase the longevity of
anger by twenty years when you make statements such as ‘He
would not shape up if I did not get angry with him’. Your mistakes
will go away if you do not side with them. If however, you ‘feed’
them, they will make themselves at home and never move.
How can you destroy your mistakes? You can do so by doing
pratikraman (apology coupled with remorse of any wrong doing)
and by repentance.
The darkness of kashays (your internal anger, pride,
attachment and greed) will not allow you to see your mistakes.
The world sleeps comfortably in bhaavnindra (delusion
resulting in attachment and abhorrence), oblivious of the harm
(spiritual regression) it causes. When one acquires Self-R ealization,
the bhaavnindra goes away and one becomes spiritually aware
Who protects the mistakes? It is the intellect (buddhi –
rationalizing faculty of mind coupled with ego which shows profit
and loss in worldly affairs). Like an attorney it argues in the favor
of a mistake, and takes control of you (soul). This is how the intellect
will come to reign, but when a person acknowledges and accepts
his own mistake, there will be no support for that mistake and it will
leave.
Those who show us our mistakes are very beneficial to us.
What is better than having someone show you your mistakes, which
otherwise you would have to make an effort to see?
Gnani Purush is open to the sky. He is like a child. Even a
child can show the Gnani his mistakes, without any hesitation and
the Gnani would accept.
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