The Flawless Vision
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Dadashri: No. That is a very dangerous thing to do. That
is prejudice. You should not be prejudiced towards anyone. If
someone stole your coat, you cannot have a prejudice for him by
having an opinion that he will steal again. All you can do is leave
your coat in a safe place. If you left your coat lying around
yesterday, then you should be cautious and put it away today.
More importantly, you must not harbor any prejudice. That is
precisely why there is all this suffering in the world. Why else
would there be any misery in the world? God is not making you
unhappy. All the misery you experience is your own creation.
What can God do in this? So do not harbor any prejudice towards
anyone. Do not look at anyone’s faults. Things will become clearer
and less confusing if you understand just this much.
If you do not do pratikraman, your opinion will remain.
This opinion binds you. Whatever fault you commit will have an
opinion behind it, and it is from these opinions that the mind arises.
I hold absolutely no opinion about anyone. After seeing a person
just once, I do not change my opinion about him.
If I happen to see a person stealing, even then, I would not
call him a thief, because it is the circumstances that drive him to
do so. People in general incriminate the one who is caught. The
world does not care about whether he is a victim of circumstances
or that he has always acted as a thief. I would only call someone
a thief if he stole all the time. I have not changed my opinion about
anyone to this very day. The relative self is dependent on
circumstances. And the Real Self is one with all. I do not hold any
difference with anyone in this world.
Questioner: You would not Dada, because you do not
think of anyone as faulty. From the Real perspective you do not
see anyone as having faults.
Dadashri: I do not see any fault in anyone, because in