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[3] These Are Not Lord Mahavir’s Pratikramans
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not react or retaliate and if for some reason there is retaliation,
he would do pratikraman. Elsewhere, there is no pratikraman
or anything of the sort.
With Pratikraman, There is No Remainder
One can only go to moksha if his accounts of credit
(merit karma), as well as debit (demerit karma), are closed. If
there is any credit left over, one will have to take another birth.
If there is any debit left over, one will have to take another birth.
Questioner: Is the remainder that of karma or of one’s
bhaav (one’s inner intent)?
Dadashri: Who is the mother of karma? Bhaav is. As
long as the mother is there, the children will be there too.
Questioner: Is pratikraman for the purpose of bringing
both credit and debit to zero – without a remainder?
Dadashri: Yes, pratikraman is for both, but one will
forget about the credit part. That is why you have to keep on
doing pratikraman for the credit.
The Path of Lord Mahavir
But this is how everything has continued up until now and
it has become very old; it is 2500 years old. When something
becomes very old, it will become like that, will it not? It is good
that they even do it once a year, is it not? What kind of
pratikraman do you do?
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Questioner: The ‘shoot-on-sight’ pratikraman.
Dadashri: That kind of pratikraman is needed and in
order to do this kind of pratikraman, one has to have awareness
of the Self (jagruti). Otherwise, how can on