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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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become the owner? Owners have misery. No one, except a
Tirthankar, can become an owner. Tirthankars do not have a
sense of ownership. They are the natural owners of everything.
What would ‘we’ want any of that for? ‘We’ are simply a nimit
(instrumental in delivering the science of Akram to the world).
After ‘our’ work is done, ‘we’ will move on.
If one’s conduct is in accord with the awareness that
existed during the times of the middle twenty-two Tirthankars,
then he would be considered a God. ‘Chandulal’ (the relative
self) cannot refrain from doing raudradhyan (adverse meditation
that hurts the self and others) and artadhyan (adverse meditation
that hurts only the self), but because he does pratikraman for
it, he is considered to have come back into dharmadhyan
(absence of adverse meditation).
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The one whose pratikraman becomes ‘cash’ pratikraman
(instant pratikraman) from all aspects is considered to have
reached the state of God. Such a one is one who does not
experience any further raudradhyan or artadhyan; such a one
does not bind much karma. Even if he does, it is of no significance
as long as he does pratikraman; it will all be erased. That is the
kind of ‘state’ I have given you. I have given you ‘the state of
Godhood’ in the palm of your hand. It is up to You to get Your
work done. I will move ahead having done ‘my’ Work.
Words That Have Flowed Through Compassion
The disciples of the twenty-two Tirthankars were all
people who did ‘shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman. They had so
much awareness that the instant they made a mistake, they became
aware of it. Now the disciples of the twenty-fourth Tirthankar
Lord Mahavir and the first Tirthankar Lord Rushabhdev are
different. Those of Lord Rushabhdev are unaware (jada) and
naïve (bhoda) and those of Lord Mahavir are cunning and
crooked (jada and vaanka). ‘Vank jadaya pachhima—
Afterwards they will be crooked and unaware.’ Now is this not