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The Flawless Vision
these faults cry out for? They are crying for recognition. People
consider their mistakes as their virtues. It is the nature of a mistake
to overpower and rule you, but once you recognize a mistake as
a mistake, it will leave. People however remain unaware of their
mistakes and continue to defend them. This only reinforces the
mistakes and strengthens them.
People Support Their Mistakes By Siding With Them
Questioner: Dada, how can you side with your mistakes?
Dadashri: You would be siding with your mistake if after
you scold someone, you try to justify your action by saying that
the person needed the scolding and that otherwise he would not
have understood. This would be siding with your mistakes. The
mistake knows that you are supporting it and so it will never leave;
on the contrary it will become even stronger, because by siding
with it, you are nurturing it. By supporting your mistake even
once, you are extending its longevity by twenty years. You should
never side with any mistakes.
The Key to Destroying Your Mistakes
Major importance is given to the awareness of aggression
caused to others through the medium of thoughts, speech and
acts and to ask for forgiveness in the direct presence of the
awakened Lord within. You should maintain awareness in every
step of daily living. The inner component of anger, pride,
attachment and greed within you will continue to create new karmic
accounts without fail. And it is against these very components
that you have to do pratikraman immediately and erase everything.
You cannot afford to let this business of binding karma continue.
Questioner: But the mistakes we make now, are they not
from our past life?