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Pratikraman
Knowledge) destroys them. Prakruti will continue to bind
opinions for some time, but you must keep erasing them.
Opinions are the underlying cause of all unrest.
Questioner: How do we get rid of the opinions we have
bound?
Dadashri: To eliminate them, you must tell yourself, or
others that you have formed such an opinion about this person,
and that the opinion is completely wrong and that you should
not have any opinion about him. When you declare this to
yourself, you will become free from it.
Without pratikraman, your opinions will remain and you
will stay bound to your faults.
Opinions have formed the mind. I never have any opinions
about anyone. My initial thought about a person when I first
meet him never changes. If I catch someone stealing, I do not
jump to the conclusion that he is a thief, because I am aware
that it is his circumstances that lead him to steal. People would
immediately label him a thief if they caught him stealing. They
would not take his circumstances into account. To them, it would
be immaterial whether or not he has a history of stealing or
whether his circumstances have forced him to steal. I would
only call a person a thief, if he were a thief forever. My opinion
about a person does not change, once it is made. Until now I
have not changed my opinion about anyone.
After you become Self-realized, it is your obligation to
make ‘Chandulal’ the relative self, pure. If the body complex
could express its feelings it would say:
“I was always pure! It is you who has contaminated me
with your inner intents. I had neither bones, nor blood, nor pus.
I was absolutely pure. You have defiled me to such a degree.
Unless you make me pure as well, you will not attain final
liberation.”