The Flawless Vision
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there is ignorance, this attachment will not leave.
In this world, you can find everything except your own
mistakes. That is way the Gnani Purush is needed to show you
your mistakes. Only he is capable of showing you your mistakes
and only then you will be able to destroy them. This can only be
achieved after you meet the Gnani Purush and he helps you become
impartial. You can attain your spiritual goal after you become
impartial towards your worldly self. You cannot however, acquire
this state of impartiality until the Gnani bestows upon you the
Knowledge of your Real Self. ‘Gnan’ does not see fault in anyone.
It is the intellect that will look at faults in everyone, even one’s
beloved brother.
Mistakes Of The Darkness
It is because of the Gnani Purush that you are able to see
your mistakes. Otherwise how are you to know about your
mistakes? Your ship would be sailing in the wrong direction because
your compass is broken. You think that you are sailing north but
in fact you are sailing south. Now what can you do when your
compass is broken, and you do not know how to navigate by the
North Star?
Swachhand (to proceed in spiritual matters without
accepting guidance from an enlightened one) is a person’s gravest
of all faults. It gives rise to an entire army of negativity in spiritual
progress. Moreover if a person defends such a disease by arguing
that there is nothing wrong with having such an attitude, then that
person is doomed, he will ruin his innumerable lives to come.
“ I know it” and “I am safe now”, are two of the greatest
dangers in spiritual progress and are the cardinal mistakes of
darkness. This darkness shields the presence of mistakes to the
extent that the owner does not realize it as a mistake. These two