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[4] How Amazing is the Awareness of the Gnani Purush!
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‘We’ cannot say something ‘is’ when ‘it is not’ and ‘we’
cannot say ‘it is not’ when ‘it is’; and that is why some people feel
hurt by what ‘we’ say. If ‘we’ were to say something exists when
it does not, you will be deluded; and if ‘we’ speak the way we
do, people feel slighted and question, ‘Why does he speak that
way?’ Therefore, every day ‘we’ have to do pratikraman for all
the people we have to speak about in this way! No matter what,
no one should be hurt. If a person says there is a ghost in the
banyan tree, and I tell him there is no such thing as a ghost in the
banyan tree, that person will feel hurt and so, in turn, I have to do
pratikraman. Pratikraman has to be done always without fail!
‘We’ have not come here to hurt anyone. ‘We’ have come to
make people happy, but ‘we’ cannot give happiness to both the
gnanis (Self-realized) and the agnanis (non-Self-realized).
Therefore, we have to do pratikraman for the other side.
Questioner: Many times there is ignorance (agnan), but
it manifests in Gnan’s clothing.
Dadashri: If ignorance arises, it will not last long, not
even for a second. And here, it will not last at all. That is
because… what is ‘our’ Knowledge (Gnan) like? It is the
Knowledge of demarcation; demarcation between Knowledge
and ignorance and so it will not work here at all.
Then if he is hurt, ‘we’ have to do pratikraman for it.
‘We’ have to turn things around as much as ‘we’ can by telling
him, ‘Dear brother, I am doing pratikraman if I did anything
wrong.’
You cannot hurt any human being at all. You may have a
misunderstanding with him, but as far as he is concerned, his
opinion is based on his understanding, is it not? You may feel
that he does not understand, but according to him, he believes
he understands so how can we hurt him?
Then There is No Pratikraman
Questioner: Now, if we continue to understand that the