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.