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[4] How Amazing is the Awareness of the Gnani Purush!
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Dadashri: It is like this: the instant ‘we’ utter a word,
there is simultaneous pratikraman being done with fervor.
Questioner: But when you tell the truth about something,
then why is pratikraman necessary?
Dadashri: No, I still have to do pratikraman. Why did
I see someone’s fault? Why did I see his fault even though he
is flawless? Why did I criticize him despite this? Any truth that
hurts others is not considered truth and should not be uttered.
If uttered, this truth becomes a fault. It represents violence.
‘We’ do instant pratikraman. ‘We’ have seen all the
sadhus and acharyas as nirdosh (flawless). To ‘us,’ no one is
at fault (doshit); even though ‘we’ say otherwise, to ‘us,’ no one
is doshit. But because ‘we’ speak to the contrary, there is
always instant pratikraman behind it. This is the result of the
lack of four degrees necessary for Keval Gnan (absolute
enlightenment). Otherwise, ‘we’ experience complete vitaragata
(total absence of attachment and abhorrence).
And you will have to do a lot of pratikraman. Even
though ‘we’ speak, ‘our’ awareness prevails, whereas you cannot
speak this way at all. You have to have the awareness. You can
never speak this way.
Questioner: What occurs if we do not do pratikraman?
Will we be liable for the wrongdoing?
Dadashri: They will file a ‘claim’ against you. They would
have filed hundreds of claims against ‘us’ in the karmic court.
What occurs if you do not settle those claims? They will remain
pending. Hence those claims will remain pending until you do
pratikraman.
After Self-Realization, Unaffected and Pure
as a Lily
Questioner: One can remain like the water lily