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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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it, should he? His opinion should be to the contrary, should it
not?
Gnani Promotes the Vitarag Religion
People drink medicine that was meant only for external
use and then they accuse the doctor of being incompetent. They
will complain that the doctor did this or that and that he did not
give them the right medicine, and that is why their son did not
get better. Hey, you! How can your son heal when he drank the
medicine meant for topical use? Would he not die from it? Topical
medicine can be poisonous if ingested, can it not? Similarly,
people have ingested the medicine that was meant for ‘external
use only’ and thus they belittle the Jain religion.
How elevated is the Vitarag path and just look at how
many divisions there are in it today! Some smart Alec came
along and created a division and pulled away. Hey, you! You
may have created a separate division, and you may find people
who will praise you, but do you know who bears the ultimate
liability? And it is all because you created the division, is it not?
Why did you start a separate ‘cooking stove’? All the
cooking was to be done on one stove, so why did you start
another? Egotistic people will always create divisions.
Even here, with Dada’s family and subsequent followers,
after two to five generations, there will be divisions of all kinds.
There will be ‘revisionists.’ I have cautioned everyone right now.
I have cautioned them against becoming ‘revisionists.’ This is a
science. Keep it alive. It will let you achieve your goal.
Lord Mahavir said it himself, ‘My disciples will be obstinate
(vaanka) and unaware (jada)’; that is always the rule, not just
for this chovisi (succession of twenty-four Tirthankars in the
third and fourth era of eac