The Flawless Vision
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You are independent, and absolutely no one can do anything
to you. You have no boss to command you. What does it matter
when even God is not your superior? When you say that God
exists as your superior, you are using him as your scapegoat. You
are expecting his forgiveness when you do something wrong. On
the contrary, you yourself are assuming the responsibilities.
The Gnani Has No Suffering
Whenever you hurt someone even slightly, you should realize
that you are at fault. You will understand this because you will feel
uneasy and agitated from within, because the other person is
obviously suffering the hurt. Granted the fault is his, but you have
become ‘instrumental’ in his suffering. You are the one who told
him off and so the mistake is also yours. Why does ‘Dada’ have
no suffering? It is because he has no more mistakes.
If someone gets hurt or affected by your mistakes, you
should immediately do pratikraman in your mind and settle the
matter. As long as the inner enemies of anger, pride, attachment
and greed exist within you, you will continue to create new
accounts. So in opposition to them, settle your karmic debts. If
you make a mistake, without doubt you will create a new account,
but you can erase it by instantly doing pratikraman. You should
do the same, i.e. confess (aalochana), ask for forgiveness
(pratikraman) and take a vow never to repeat the mistake
(pratyakhyan), even if you are hurt by the mistakes of others.
He Who Destroys His Mistakes Becomes
The Supreme Self
Once a person decides that he wants to destroy all his
mistakes, he can become fully enlightened. We are all bound by
our mistakes. If you destroy all your mistakes, you become fully
enlightened. The absolute Self has no faults whatsoever. What do