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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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Our pratyakhyan (vowing not to repeat the mistake) is
for whatever we do pratikraman for; that verily is our
pacchkhan. The fact that it occurs again is natural. The layers
of an ‘onion’ keep on coming; that does not mean that whatever
you did (pratikraman and pratyakhyan) was wrong. When
you take pacchkhan and the mistake is repeated, what do you
understand from that? There is no connection between
pacchkhan and the mistakes that occur. One thinks that mistakes
should end just because he did pacchkhan. It is like the hundreds
and thousands of layers of an onion and so, until all the layers
are gone, the fault will keep recurring. How is the poor man to
understand this?!
How is one to understand what the past is like and what
the next life is going to be like?
(64)
One has to do pratyakhyan for the mistakes he makes.
If one does not do anything wrong, then why should he have to
do pratyakhyan?
Questioner: Then what is pratikraman for?
Dadashri: Pratikraman is for any wrongdoing, alochana
is for any wrongdoing and pratyakhyan is for any wrongdoing.
Today, all these sadhus and sadhvis (monks and nuns)
tell me, ‘You are not doing pratyakhyan. You are not taking
pacchkhan.’ Hey, you! Pacchkhan is to be made where there
is acquisitiveness (grahan). When one does not acquire, what
pacchkhan (vow of fasting of certain food) should he take?
Therefore, the sadhus and sadhvis (male and female
monks or ascetics) do not do pacchkhan at all. They consider
renouncing as pacchkhan. Renunciation is not pacchkhan.
Pacchkhan is for that which has not been renounced. Then it
will result as renunciation (tyaag).
Do you not understand what one has to take pacchkhan
of?