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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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morning pratikraman (rayshi) and evening pratikraman
(devshi), they will reduce their mistakes by that much. However,
as long as darshan mohaniya prevails, there can never be
liberation; the mistakes will continue to arise. However many
pratikraman one does, he will erase that many mistakes.
Questioner: Please give us an example of that. During
the time of the twenty-two Tirthankars, what mistakes were
created and how did one do pratikraman?
Dadashri: Exactly in the same manner as we do over
here. Whatever mistakes one made, it was done in the same
manner. Just as we do pratikraman for the mistakes we see,
that is how they did it.
Questioner: If a person stole something or said something
wrong, then he would feel that he did wrong and that he ought
not to do so.
Dadashri: Yes, and so he will not say the wrong thing
again.
Questioner: So his new karma bondage was one of, ‘I
should say the right things,’ is that it?
Dadashri: That will occur again.
Questioner: So the entire procedure is changed in this
manner?
Dadashri: Yes. There is darshan mohaniya! So it occurs
this time round. For the next life, the bondage will be just like
that.
Questioner: So the ‘negative speaking’ comes to an end
and the charging is that of ‘speaking positively’?
Dadashri: It will be corrected only in this very life. In the
next life, if he meets the wrong kind of people, he will learn to
speak negatively again.