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[5] The Way of Akram Vignan 99 discovery. And truly people consider ‘discharge’ (effect) as ‘charge’ (cause). That ‘we’ got rid of by telling people it is meaningless to believe an effect to be the cause. Conduct has nothing to do with religion. If you believe, ‘I am the doer of conduct,’ then you give rise to new conduct all over again. Therefore, it will give rise to religion, but you will not attain purity (the Self). There will not be any purity (shuddhata) in ‘discharge,’ the effect, the conduct. The good (shubha) and the bad (ashubha) will continue but the pure (shuddha) will never be attained. Therefore, give people knowledge (gnan) that is compatible with the times. If you make a statement on the loud speakers that there is plenty of grain supply in our country, and that in the past one could buy grains at 12 cents per pound and that one can buy grain again at 12 cents per pound, people will tell you not to say such things. They will tell you to speak according to the times. All these religious scriptures are not in tune with the times and are thus incompatible with the current era. Ask for the Energy and the Strength to do Pratikraman What does our Science of Akram say? If I were to ask a person, ‘Have you been stealing for long?’ he would reply, ‘Yes.’ If we ask with love and kindness, he will admit everything. Then if asked, ‘How much and for how many years have you been stealing?’ He would reply, ‘I have been doing it for a couple of years.’ Then ‘we’ tell him, ‘There is no problem if you steal.’ I place my hand on his head and with love I tell him, ‘But continue doing pratikraman.’ What do we teach him? Questioner: Do this much pratikraman. Dadashri: He may ask, ‘How?’ and I would show him the way to do it. So he gets some consolation and he will feel, ‘Oh, ho ho! People are generally contemptuous towards me but