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certain things? For that you must continue your pratikraman.
Understand that despite doing pratikraman, if you remember
things, it means that they are still pending and require more
pratikraman.
It is because of your attachment and abhorrence that you
remember things. If they did not come to mind, you would
forget the mistakes you have made. Why do you not remember
the people you met in passing, but you remember the loved
ones who are now dead? It is because you still have some
pending attachment. Doing pratikraman will dissolve this
attachment.
Desires come to you because you have not done
pratyakhyan and past events come to your mind because you
have not done pratikraman.
Questioner: Is pratikraman to be done for the ownership
claimed?
Dadashri: For ownership you have to do pratyakhyan.
For the faults there is pratikraman.
Questioner: Even after doing pratikraman, if the same
faults come to mind, does it mean that we are not free of those
faults?
Dadashri: The faults are like onion layers. As you peel
the outer layer of an onion, there is yet another layer beneath.
These faults have many layers. With each pratikraman you do,
one layer is shed. In this way when you do a hundred or more
pratikramans, the fault will eventually go. Some faults will go
away after five pratikramans and some may require more. A
fault requires as many pratikraman as the number of layers it
has. The longer it takes for pratikraman, the bigger and heavier
the fault.
Questioner: Explain what you mean when you say that,