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[5] The Way of Akram Vignan
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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