In the Samvat year 1876, on the fourth day of the dark half of the month of Margashirsh. Shreeji Maharaj was seated in the Durbar of Dada Khachar in Gadhada. He had put on all white garments. Saints and devotees from various places had gathered before Him in an assembly.
Then Shreeji Maharaj started His discourse with these words, “One who is able to discriminate sat the reality, from asat, the unreality, will be able to know his own faults, and will try to eliminate them with determination. But if he comes to know of any fault in a saint or a satsangi a member of the holy fellowship, he will not look to it, but will imbibe his virtues only. And in no case he will find faults in God. He will always believe as truth, whatever is said by the saint or God. He will never doubt their intention. If God or saints ask him to believe that he is the real thing, different from the physical body and the senses, mind and pran [breaths of life] also and that the body and things associated with it are unreal, he takes their words to be true and behaves as if he is the soul, different from them. He is not carried away by the thoughts in his mind, and avoids vicious company and worldly objects after knowing them properly, which may keep him in bondage, or may cause him to fall from his ekantik dharma. Thus he will not fall in their bondage. He always accepts positive ideas and neglects negative ideas. This is called power of discrimination.”
