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Akasa or the sky is ever pure, never tainted. It is infinite. Similarly is the self eternal and taintless. The body may be tainted, mind may be disturbed but not the self or Atman. Self is sinless. The body and the mind may err but not the soul. The wise ones see the sinless soul in all.
Gautama the Buddha once was accosted by Angulimala, a dacoit. By the loving glance of the Buddha the sinful robber was transformed into a pious man.
Jesus by his compassionate look was able to perceive the pure soul in a prostitute and thereby saved her from the jeering society.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu could see the same divinity in Jagai and Madai and bestowed his love and affection and embraced them who beat him. Only the ordinary mortals see the external body. The sages and seers perceive only God everywhere, sinless soul everywhere.
Adi Sankara, Veda Vyasa and Socrates are the knowers of truth. They are not bound by body and the barriers made by it. Nor are they bound by its actions including birth and death.
"Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in man, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals... You give him the truth, and there your work is done. Let him compare it in his own mind with what he has already in him; and, mark my words, if you have really given him the truth, the false must vanish, light must dispel darkness, and truth will bring the good out... Put the good before them, see how eagerly they take it, see how the divine that never dies, that is always living in the human, comes up awakened and stretches out its hand for all that is good, and all that is glorious."--- Swami Vivekananda
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