Absolute Vision of The Enlightened One

1. To criticize someone is the same as squandering away your wealth.
2. Your mistakes and your blunders are your only superiors. So if you are not at fault, no one in this world will bother you.
3. There is nothing wrong with making a mistake, but you should be able to see that mistake.
4. In order to destroy a mistake, you must accept it and regard it as a mistake. You cannot go on protecting it.
5. The adversities that one has to face, are in reality preceded by the strength to endure it. If this were not the case, people would be destroyed. This is a natural law.
6. No one in this world is at fault. It is because of your incorrect perception that you see others at fault.
7. This world is truly independent and no one can interfere with another.
8. Suffering exists as long as you see faults of others. You are liberated when you cease to see faults in others.
9. The moment you begin to see your own faults, you begin your journey to the state of full Enlightenment.
10. When one's knowledge and understanding become flawless, one is liberated.

1. To see faults is a fault in itself. When you cannot see your own faults what business do you have seeing faults in others? The only faults you need to look at are your own and no one else's.
2. Your perception of others is a reflection of yourself. No one can utter anything to you unless you yourself are at fault.
3. Your karma means your own fault. The Soul is faultless, but it is bound because of the karma you created. You will begin the process of liberation as you begin to see your own faults.
4. By supporting your mistake even once, you are extending its longevity by twenty years. You should never side with any mistakes.

1. If someone gets hurt or affected by your mistakes, you should immediately do pratikraman in your mind and settle the matter. As long as the inner enemies of anger, pride, attachment and greed exist within you, you will continue to create new accounts. So in opposition to them, settle your karmic debts. If you make a mistake, without doubt you will create a new account,but you can erase it by instantly doing pratikraman. You should  do the same, i.e. confess (aalochana), ask for forgiveness (pratikraman) and take a vow never to repeat the mistake (pratyakhyan), even if you are hurt by the mistakes of others.

2. You should be grateful from within whenever your faults manifest; only then will these faults cease to exist. If you feel hatred towards a policeman you should be grateful to him and the fault will cease. Consider the person that you find disagreeable your benefactor and you will no longer find him disagreeable. Each and every word I utter is like a medicine. All these are remedies; how else is anyone to understand the statement that you must be indebted to the person that calls you a thief! Take this as a command from Dada as it is of utmost benefit for you.

Questioner: If Dada himself is grateful to the other person, then what is wrong with us doing the same?

Dadashri: Yes, this is how you should look at it: Tell yourself that he is just calling you a thief and not devious or evil. It is good of him not to say anything else; after all it is his mouth and he can say whatever he wants. Do you have the right to stop him? You just have to feel grateful to him. By doing this you will not spoil your mind, and you will keep your peace. Do you understand? This is a principle! How is it so? If someone called me a thief, I would be grateful to him. Why so Dada? No one would say such a thing (call you 'A Thief') in the first place. All this is nothing but a result of your own projection, a result of whatever you yourself had uttered in your previous life. I give you absolute written assurance that this entire world is in the form of results of projections. That is why I am grateful and you should also feel the same. If you felt the same way, your mind will not be disturbed.

A few years ago I used to announce that anyone in need of money could come and give me a slap and I in return would pay him five hundred rupees. Everyone refused and said they could not do it. Where can you find someone willing to slap or insult you even if you were willing to pay them for it? So people who are insulted frequently in their homes without having to pay for them, should consider themselves fortunate. As for myself, although I was willing to pay five hundred rupees, I was not as fortunate.