66 The Flawless Vision
that not sheer foolishness ? If you keep kicking the toilet door , and the toilet still continues to smell bad , whose fault would it be ?
Questioner : The one who kicks the door .
Dadashri : What a big mistake ! Is it the poor door ’ s fault ? Perpetual kicking of that which is faultless creates more stink and that is the nature of this world . By such useless acts one only invites problems and breaks the doors
What I am trying to impress upon you , is that as you begin to see your physical and mental faults , the freer you will become . You need not do anything else in order to get rid of your mistakes . There is no need for you to kick the latrine door . Besides would the smell go away if you did that ?
Questioner : No it would not .
Dadashri : Would this affect the toilet in any way ? People are similarly engaged in useless acts . In their attempts to change the effects ( faults ), they end up creating and binding more karma . In the process , whatever merit karma and net gain they had derived is wasted away . The net result is a birth in the animal kingdom .
Vision Without Opinion : The Flawless Vision Stop looking at faults as of this moment .
Questioner : Now if we do stop looking at faults , would we not be considered foolish in the eyes of the world ?
Dadashri : So by looking at other people ’ s faults you accomplish something ?
Questioner : Not by looking at their faults , but by discriminating amongst the nature of faults . Like saying , this man is like this and that man is like that .