Passage 4

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He travelled about, and came back. ‘Kṛṣṇa! Wherever I looked, I found no good people. I searched so very hard. But not one good man came my way. If there is any goodness at all, it may be only in this Duryodhana,’ he said, describing himself. Well, He was pleased: this is Duryodhana's reaction, reflection, resound.

He called Dharmaja: ‘Dharmaja, you must do Me a favour,’ He said. ‘Swami, what could You need? What is this about my helping? When You are the Lord who protects the whole world, what help can I give You?’ ‘But fulfil My wish,’ He said. ‘I will surely do it, Swami!’ he said. ‘Search this kingdom to see whether there is anyone bad in it, and come back,’ He said. Dharmaja went all round the kingdom and, coming back: ‘Kṛṣṇa! Nowhere did I see a wicked man. If there is some fault, a little here and there, it may be in Dharmaja himself; but nobody is guilty,’ he said.

Both of these, Duryodhana's influence and Dharmaja's report, took shape as reactions of this kind. Dharmaja's vision is a good vision; Duryodhana's vision is a badly distorted vision. Each one's reaction, each one's resound, each one's reflection has arisen from himself alone. So Dharmaja is not a bad man. Simply this: as the vision, so the creation. So, what is called creation. What is called creation is not there directly. Creation takes shape on the ground of our vision alone. Whatever the colour of the glasses people wear, creation looks that colour to them. So whosever the vision, whosever the sin, whosever the good, whosever the bad, they themselves must set it right. On this very ground the Buddha spoke of samyak dṛṣṭi: only when we first set our own vision right do we become those who have set the whole of creation right. If we keep the fault in our own vision and simply want the whole of creation set right, how can it be set right?