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The Flawless Vision
vow) that you wanted liberation, but that vow was not strong
enough. That is why you find yourself in your current predicament.
In the end you had to come to Dada, did you not?
Only Then Can You Consider Your Mistake Destroyed
If you had destroyed even one mistake in each of your past
lives, you would have already become liberated. Instead of
destroying mistakes you have increased them fivefold. Your external
appearance is pleasant, but within you there is endless strife. When
do you know that you have destroyed your faults? You have no
other authority (upri) over you, but you do need someone to
point out your mistakes. You can destroy your mistakes, but how
will you be able to find them by yourself? It is not as if you have
only a few of them; you have countless mistakes. The mistakes of
the physical body appear very serious – Some people use such
brash language that even if they were to invite you to dinner for a
sumptuous thirty-two course meal, you would be turned off. You
would think to yourself that it would have been better if they had
not invited you in the first place. People speak harshly and their
minds are full of venom.
Who Erases Your Faults?
Who will destroy your mistakes for you? Only the Gnani
Purush, the one who has destroyed all his mistakes can do the
same for you. He is the one who despite the presence of the
physical body, lives with the sense that he is not the body. He is
Vitaraag, absolutely detached. This sense of total detachment from
all ownership of the body is the seed of Knowledge. After
destroying all seeds of ignorance, the seed of Knowledge begins
to thrive. If you have even the slightest attachment for your body,
it would not be regarded as the seed of knowledge. As long as