The Flawless Vision
15
Dadashri: These mistakes are the results of the very demerit
karma that you committed in your past life. Not only do people
not destroy their mistakes in this life, but they also go on increasing
them. In order to destroy a mistake, you must accept it and regard
it as a mistake. You cannot go on protecting it. This is the key the
Gnani gives you to solve all your problems. It can open up the
most difficult of locks.
How can a Gnani Purush help you? All he does is to simply
shed light on your mistakes; and show you ways not to support
and protect your mistakes. But if you ever say something like,
‘Oh but I have to live in this world, how can I possibly do that?’
you are supporting your mistake. You should never support your
mistake in this way. When you do this, not only are you supporting
your mistake, but also creating bondage for infinite rebirths.
Once you begin to recognize your mistakes; they will be
destroyed. When cloth merchants swindle their customers by
stretching the cloth before cutting it in order to sell them short,
and brag about their ruse, they are essentially committing grave
negative karma. This actually supports their mistakes. There is
no need to support your mistake like that. By cheating others,
one is doomed to face infinite rebirths.
Stop Nurturing Inner Enemies
If a person wants to be free from mistakes, I would tell him
that he should stop feeding his inner enemies of anger, pride,
attachment and greed for a period of three years. When these are
starved of nourishment, they will become ineffective and lifeless.
When you no longer give sustenance to mistakes, they will abandon
you. Any support for anger, pride attachment and greed is defined
as a mistake. If for just three years, that support is not given to
these inner enemies, they will disappear.